1822 Rare Italian Vellum Book - Petrarch - Le Rime de Francesco Petrarca

 

Author : PETRARCA, Francesco.
Title : Le Rime del Petrarca con brevi annotazioni.
Language : Text in Italian.
Publisher : Firenze, Presso Giuseppe Molini, 1822.
Size : 5.5 " X 3.5 "
Pages : xxxi-496 pages
Binding : Attractive and very good full vellum binding with gilt lettered leather label to spine (hinges fine, overall near fine) under a protective mylar cover.
Content : Very good content (bright and tight, some foxing and staining, gift note of a previous onwer on blank endpaper)  
Illustration : Including a nice frontis and illustrated title page.

The book : Rare italian edition 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.