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Lenzoni Carlo

In defense of the Florentine language, 1556

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€ 200 - 300

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€ 284

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Information

Florence, Leonardo Torrentino, 1566. In 4th. pp. 204, (16). Beautiful bordered woodcut title page, rare and slight browning and foxing, some rare small spots, binding from the 16th century. XIX in half parchment and corners, spine decorated with title on morocco tag (renewed). § Together in the Marino lot, Giambattista. Cavalier Marino's gallery. Distinguished in paintings, & sculptures. Venice, Giovanni Battista Ciotti, 1620 [i.e. 1622]. In 12° (incomplete, P1 page missing), coeval parchment binding, defects.

Specialist Notes

The only edition dedicated by the curator Pierfrancesco Giambullari to Michelangelo Buonarroti. It is a broad treatise on the rules to follow for correct and graceful prose.GAMBA, n.1454. ICCU/EDIT16, no. 34636

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