PETRARCA, Francesco (1304-1374) - Le Rime del Petrarca, brevemente esposte per Lodovico Castelvetro. Venice: Antonio Zatta, 1756.   A wide margined copy in fine binding of this splendid Venetian edition celebrated for the illustrations and for the correctness of the text edited by Cristoforo Zapata de Cisneros and integrated by the life of Petrarca by L. Beccadelli, a compendium of it and a life of Castelvetro by Muratori, Praises and testimonies of renowned men, the catalogue of editions of the Canzoniere and other writings.   2 volumes, 4to (280 x 203mm). Half-titles, first volume with engraved frontispiece and title in red and black, engraved vignette on title, finely engraved head-and-tail pieces, printer's device at the end of the second volume, 4 engraved plates, *1 blank (very slight foxing and browning, some light soiling). Contemporary mottled calf, titles on labels and gilt decorations on spine and plates, marbled endpapers and edges (some losses at joints and at the extremities). Provenance: John Marten Cripps (bookplate on front endpaper; 1780-1853 antiquarian). (2)

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