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Venice, by Maestro Giovan Antonio and brothers da Sabbio, 1530. In 4° 205 x 140 mm. The last 12 leaves contain the Stanzas "To Lord Ottauiano Fregoso". Some marginal foxing, on the first leaf notes and verses in a contemporary hand. SPLENDID CONTEMPORARY VENETIAN BINDING with blind embossing on the covers and spine, partially restored.
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FIRST EDITION OF THE RHYMES, IN A SPLENDID CONTEMPORARY VENETIAN BINDING
In his Rime , published first in 1530 and then in 1535, Pietro Bembo carried out a significant "refoundation of Petrarchism": the fifteenth-century imitation of Petrarch, which until then had displayed a hybrid, reworked, and often haphazard nature, was overcome in favor of a complete disguise of the Tuscan writer's literary personality. His poetic corpus recounts youthful errors and illusions, a painful and tormented relationship with God, and a spiritual maturity achieved only in adulthood. Bembo thus establishes, in his songbook, an imitation of that historical trajectory of personal intimacy already visible in the fourteenth-century poet's works. The structure of the Rime, which comprises 165 texts, follows the principle of a single model for each genre of literary communication, first discussed in an exchange of letters between 1512 and 1513 with Giovanni Francesco Pico della Mirandola.
In his Rime , published first in 1530 and then in 1535, Pietro Bembo carried out a significant "refoundation of Petrarchism": the fifteenth-century imitation of Petrarch, which until then had displayed a hybrid, reworked, and often haphazard nature, was overcome in favor of a complete disguise of the Tuscan writer's literary personality. His poetic corpus recounts youthful errors and illusions, a painful and tormented relationship with God, and a spiritual maturity achieved only in adulthood. Bembo thus establishes, in his songbook, an imitation of that historical trajectory of personal intimacy already visible in the fourteenth-century poet's works. The structure of the Rime, which comprises 165 texts, follows the principle of a single model for each genre of literary communication, first discussed in an exchange of letters between 1512 and 1513 with Giovanni Francesco Pico della Mirandola.
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