BORGHINI, Raffaello (1537 – 1588) - Il riposo. Florence: Giorgio Marescotti, 1584.   First edition of Borghini's work dedicated to the theory and history of art. The treatise takes the form of a dialogue between Bernardo Vecchietti, the sculptor Ridolfo Sirigatti and some Florentine nobles and is set in the Tuscan villa "Il Riposo". The author, describing in detail the works of art preserved in churches and private collections, provides an important historical testimony and outlines the customs and artistic taste of the Florentine nobility of the time.   8vo (158 x 103mm). Printer's device on title, a full-page woodcut illustration, woodcut initials (illustration lightly cropped, foxing, marginal tears at 2I4-5). 18th-century vellum with gilt decorations and title on spine label, blue speckled edges (lightly darkened spine). Provenance: Ex Libris Jacobi Manzoni (Minister of the Roman Republic, 1848-1849, bibliophile) - Terzi Library (bookplate of private library on endpaper).

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