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Thursday 24 June 2021 e Friday 25 June 2021, 03:00 PM • Rome

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Bembo, Pietro

On the historia of vinitiana [...] commonly written books XII, 1552

Estimate

€ 200 - 300

Sold

€ 243

The price includes buyer's premium

Information

Venice, Gualtero Scotto, 1552. In 4 °. & Nbsp; Typographic mark on the title page and at the end of the volume, figured drop caps, rare old hand annotations, small tear restored on the inner margin of the first cards, light and sporadic blooms, some reddening and small halo, small woodworm holes on the first and last cards, coeval binding in rigid parchment, author and title stamped in gold within the spine, slight defects.

Specialist Notes

First edition in Italian of this work, originally published in Latin the previous year and translated into vernacular by Bembo himself. Sabellico's work continues and deals with the "modern" history of Venice, from 1487 to 1513. On the verso of card 72, the Cardinal traces a laudatory description of Christopher Columbus, as a humanistic symbol of going beyond the boundaries of the known, of the "humane soul eager for new things". & nbsp;