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Florence, by the heirs of Bernardo Giunti, 1555. In 8°. Full leather binding. Spine with 3 raised bands and with title, author and decorations in gold. Marbled endpapers. Sprayed cuts in red. Printer's mark on the title page and at the end. Woodcut initials. Small defects in the binding and light reddening.
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First edition of the second volume of poems by Francesco Berni (c. 1497–1535) and contemporary burlesque poets, dedicated to Alessandro de' Medici. Considered by Brunet to be more complete and better printed than the first volume (1548), this and its counterparts are very similar to Giolito's anthologies, which collected and juxtaposed "similar" texts by contemporary figures for popular consumption. Because they were published several years apart, the first and second volumes are most commonly found separately. Lending his name to a particular form of burlesque poetry, the bernesca, Francesco Berni focused on the everyday, the crude, and the downright vulgar, and through his poetry elevated it to a semi-heroic status.
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