PICCOLOMINI Alessandro (1508-1578) - Copiosissima parafrase.. nel primo libro della Retorica d'Aristotele. Venice: Giovanni Varisco, 1565.   Piccolomini's first edition of the translation and commentary on Aristotle's Rhetoric.   4to (200 x 143mm). Printer's device on title and at the end, woodcut headpieces and initials, silk bookmark (tiny wormtrack to top margin of title and first leaves, light dampstaining to lower margin of some central leaves). 18th-century marbled calf, spine decorated in gilt, red edges (extremities lightly rubbed, some minor restorations and small wormholes). Provenance: early erased ownership inscription on title and some early, often trimmed, marginal annotations - Fontanini (ownership inscription on title dated 1882) - Loci Dorrini? Pisarum (stamps on title ) - Camillo Grandini (boookplate).

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