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Cei, Francesco

Sonecti capituli sextine song, stanzas et strambocti composed for the very excellent Francescho Cei, 1503

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Florence, for Filippo di Giunta, 1503. In 8°. Full leather binding. Framed boards and coat of arms in gold. Spine with 5 raised bands and with author, title, publisher, city and year in gold. Marbled endpapers. Back covers with gilt trim. Gilded edges. Title from the title on page π1r. Guide letters for woodcut initials.

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RARE FIRST EDITION

First edition of a popular collection of poems in various genres of courtly poetry, in which the author (as Alcebano) confesses his love for Cassandra di Bartolomeo Bartolini Salimbeni (as Clizia). There were eight reprints of the collection before 1520. From a family memoir written by a nephew, we learn that Francesco Cei was born on 26 March 1471 and died, unmarried and childless, in Rome in 1505. In these poems he recounts that his love for Clizia flared up in 1494 and burned for seven years, until her marriage to the wealthy Florentine merchant Carlo di Leonardo Ginori (1473-1527). The author then left Florence, perhaps to appease his unrequited love, perhaps banished by the Savonarolian faction.

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