GLI HEROICI DI GIO BATTISTA PIGNA, A DONNO ALFONSO DA ESTE II DUCA DI FERRARA V
PIGNA Giovan Battista (1529-1575)
Published by appresso Gabriel Giolito De`Ferrari, In Vinegia, 1561
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Legatura coeva in pergamena floscia, tracce di bindelle deperdite; titolo manoscrittto al dorso. 105:(1)-(2b.)-( 16) pagine numerate. Frontespizio con titolo e ampia marca tipografica di Giolito a silografia (altra marca più piccola al verso di pagina 105), antica nota manoscritta cassata alla parte superiore, piccolo timbro nobiliare sul lato destro; all`interno, numerosi capolettera, testatine, fregi e, alla pagina 88, testo racchiuso entro ampia cornice tipografica con vedutina di città sulle colonne laterali, il tutto a silografia.Prima edizione di questa opera dedicata alla nobilità ferrarese, contenente tre libri in prosa; da pagina 89 segue il poemetto \"Heroico\", come cita il Bongi, Annali di G. Giolito \"cui sussegue un poemetto sullo stesso soggetto intitolato l`Heroico, di 49 ottave\". Esemplare in eccellenti condizioni, ad ampi margini. Seller Inventory # 0006441
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Title: GLI HEROICI DI GIO BATTISTA PIGNA, A DONNO ...
Publisher: appresso Gabriel Giolito De`Ferrari, In Vinegia
Publication Date: 1561
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Gli Heroici di Gio. Battista Pigna, a Donno Alfonso da Este II. Duca di Ferrara V
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Venezia, Gabriele Giolito de' Ferrari, Venezia, 1561
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Seller: Govi Rare Books LLC, Woodside, New York City, NY, U.S.A.
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Condition: Buono (Good). ?SE NE TROVANO COPIE IN CARTA GRANDE ED IN CARTA TURCHINA? (S. BONGI)4to (210x153 mm). 105, [19] pp. Collation: A-M4 N6 *4 **4. Complete with l. N6, a blank. Roman and italic type. Woodcut printer's device on the title page, a different device on l. N5v. Woodcut animated initials, head- and tailpieces. Leaf L4v within woodcut architectural border. Late 19th-century brown cloth, spine with title in gilt lettering (slightly worn). Repaired worming to the lower inner margin throughout the volume (more strongly at the center of the volume) only occasionally slightly affecting the text, upper and lower margin a bit short, all in all a very good copy printed on blue paper from the library of Count Henry Chandon de Briailles (1898-1937; his bookplate on the recto of the front flyleaf).First and only edition, dedicated by Pigna to Alfonso II d'Este (Ferrara, 15 August 1561), of this treatise on the heroic poem divided into three parts, followed by a poem of 49 ottava rima stanzas printed at the end of the volume, which narrates the true events of the duke's fall from his horse during a tournament.?Gli heroici is a short treatise meant to introduce and explain Pigna's own heroic poem on the fall of Alfonso da Este in a tournament; the poem follows in the same volume. His choice of the subject was dictated, he says, by the fact that it contained in their proper form the ?seven circumstances of all civil operations': a person, an action, relationship to great persons, an instrument, a place and occasion, a mode for the action, and an end (pp. 9-10). As a heroic poem, or an epic, this work will possess some qualities common to all poetry, some features peculiar to the epic, and some characteristics which it will share with the related form of tragedy. So for the most part the statement that it contains ?one single action of one illustrious person' is general in its application, except that the ?illustrious' relates it specifically to tragedy and the epic (p. 11) [?] In Pigna's poem, the true event is the fall of Alfonso from his horse; the verisimilar consequence is that the guardian angels, headed by Mars, should have interceded with God for his life. This latter action constitutes the ?imitation'. It will be noted that the action as described contains elements both of tragedy and of the epic: first, there is mutation of fortune which relates it to tragedy; second, there is a perfecting of the actual events which relate them to the epic. The emotional effects are equally mixed: pity and terror accompanied by the desire for honor (on the part of common men) and the desire for magnanimity (on the part of the great) [?] Finally, the action combines elements of the active and contemplative lives; the active life is more proper to illustrious persons, the other to private citizens. Thus Pigna's poem leans more towards the active, which is both heroic and tragic (pp. 55-66) [?] It is clear from what Pigna says in the three books of Gli heroici that theory has been made to serve two purposes, to provide the basis of the poem itself and to justify, after the fact, certain features of that same poem [?]? (B. Weinberg, A History of Literary Criticism in the Italian Renaissance, Chicago, 1961, I, pp. 469-471).?Nel 1561 [Pigna] pubblicò un'edizione dell'Ars poetica di Orazio (Venezia, V. Valgrisi), frutto degli intensi studi giovanili, e un trattato in tre libri dedicato ad Alfonso II, Gli heroici (Venezia, G. Giolito, 1561) intesi idealmente a saldare le riflessioni sul poema cavalleresco con il nuovo interesse per una nuova ?poesia heroica', fondata su un fatto vero, cioè storico, nel quale interviene però il verosimile, sotto forma di trascendente o soprannaturale. La nuova idea di poesia è esemplificata dal poemetto celebrativo in 50 stanze intitolato L'heroico ? ?uno schizzo della vita heroica' (Gli heroici, p. 15) ? intorno al quale si struttura il trattato. Il poemetto ha per soggetto la ?horribile caduta' del principe Alfonso durante. Book. Seller Inventory # bc_13788
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Gli Heroici di Gio. Battista Pigna, a Donno Alfonso da Este II. Duca di Ferrara V.
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Venice Gabriele Giolito de' Ferrari 1561, 1561
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4° (210x152 mm). Printed on blue paper. Collation: A-M4, N6, *4, **4. 105, [19] pages. Complete with fol. N6 blank. Roman and italic type. Woodcut printer's device on the title-page, a different device on fol. N5v. Woodcut animated initials, head- and tailpieces. Fol. L4v within woodcut architectural border. Nineteenth-century cardboards, covered with brown paper. Spine with title in gilt lettering. A good copy, a few repairs to the lower gutter, not affecting the text.Provenance: from the library of Count Henry Chandon de Briailles (1898-1937; ex-libris on the recto of the front flyleaf). First and only edition of this famous heroic poem, exceptionally presented in the only-extant copy printed on blue paper. The Heroici was composed by the renowned humanist Giovan Battista Nicolucci, better known as Giovanni Battista Pigna, secretary to Alfonso II, Duke of Este, historian at the Ferrara court and great commentator of Ariosto's Orlando Furioso. The work is dedicated by Pigna to his illustrious patron, and narrates, over forty-nine ottava rima stanzas, the true event of the duke's fall from his horse during a tournament. The poem is introduced by three books in prose, in which Pigna expounds his theory on tragic poetry and the heroic epic and provides an analysis of the peculiar features of these poetic genres. Bongi states that of Pigna's Heroici "se ne trovano copie in carta grande ed in carta turchina", one of which is in the hands of the "cav. Andrea Tessier di Venezia", referring to the library of Andrea Tessier, sold in Munich in 1900 by Rosenthal, which contained a copy "tiré sur papier bleu" (lot 534), possibly purchased by Henry Chandon de Briailles. A copy on blue paper was also sold in London in 1783, at the sale of the distinguished library collected by Thomas Croft. The catalogue Bibliotheca Croftsiana lists the entry "Pigna (Gio. Batt.) gli Heroici 4° perg. Vineg. per Gab. Giolito 1561. printed upon blue paper".Adams P-1208; Bongi Annali II, p. 121; Olschki Choix, 18620; Nuovo-Coppens, I Giolito e la stampa nell'Italia del XVI secolo, Genève 2005, p. 423; Bibliothek Tessier. Katalog eins grossen Theils der Bibliotheken des verstorbenen Chevalier Andrea Tessier und des Marchese de***. Versteigerunge in München vom 21.-23. Mai 1900 durch Jacques Rosenthal, München 1900; Philobiblon, One Thousand Years of Bibliophily, no. 126. Book. Seller Inventory # 0000000008364
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