1812 Rare Italian Book set - Petrarch - Le Rime de Francesco Petrarca

 

Author : PETRARCA, Francesco.
Title : LE RIME . Tratte da' migliori esemplari. Nuova edizione nella quale s'è adoperato il modo più semplice di notare le voci coll'accento di prosodia.
Language : Text in Italian.
Publisher : Avignone, François Seguin, 1812. Complete set of 2 volumes.
Size : 6 " X 4"
Pages : xv-209, 220 pages
Binding : Attractive and very good quarter leather binding with gilt lettered leather label to spine (hinges slightly worn but tight, overall slightly scuffed) under a protective mylar cover.
Content : Very good content (bright and tight, rare foxing and staining)  

The book : Rare italian edition published in Avignon (France) of Petrarch's Rime.

The author: Francesco Petrarca (July 20, 1304 – July 18/19, 1374), commonly anglicized as Petrarch, was a scholar and poet of Renaissance Italy who was one of the earliest humanists. His rediscovery of Cicero's letters is often credited with initiating the 14th-century Renaissance. Petrarch is often considered the founder of Humanism. In the 16th century, Pietro Bembo created the model for the modern Italian language based on Petrarch's works, as well as those of Giovanni Boccaccio, and, to a lesser extent, Dante Alighieri. Petrarch would be later endorsed as a model for Italian style by the Accademia della Crusca.