Petrarca, Opera, Milan, Scinzenzeler, 1512, later speckled calf

Francesco Petrarca

Opera... con li commenti sopra li Triumphi: soneti et canzone historiate et novamente corette per miser Nicolo Peranzone con molte acute et excellente additione (Sonetti e canzone). Milan: [Giovanni Giacomo and brothers da Legnano] Giovanni Antonio Scinzenzeler, 8 March 1512

2 parts in one volume, folio (275 x 192mm.), Sonetti e canzone bound first, woodcut Legnano devices on title-pages, full-page woodcut opposite start of each section, eighteenth-century speckled calf, leaf e8 lacking and supplied from a later edition, some staining, cut somewhat close, a few marginal paper repairs, binding slightly rubbed and scraped, spine chipped at head

The woodcuts are reused from the 1494 Scinzenzeler edition.

LITERATURE:

Edit16 49934; Sander 5615; Speck, Petrarca 190