Petrarca, Librorum Francisci Petrarche impressorum annotatio, Venice, 1501, half pigskin over boards

Francesco Petrarca

[Opere latine] Librorum Francisci Petrarche impressorum annotatio. (Venice: Simon da Lovere for Andrea Torresano, 27 March 1501 and 17 June 1501

2 parts in one volume, folio (290 x 200mm.), with blank leaf at end of part 1, e1_8 slightly shorter at head, old German half blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, single wide clasp, blue edges, spine re-covered in the eighteenth century with calf, spine tooled in gilt in compartments, a few small wormholes at beginning and end and in binding, spine slightly frayed at ends

Second collected edition of Petrarch's works in Latin, with a life of Petrarch by Girolamo Squarzafico and the commentary of the Canzoniere by Francesco Filelfo.

LITERATURE:

Edit16 31762; Speck, Petrarca 5

PROVENANCE:

Jesuits of [--], inscription at head of title-page dated 1708, the gift of Joannes Jacobus Perkhoffer, a canon of Brixen