Franco Niccolò 1515 1570 (2 results)

Book. Condition: Very Good. Pap. Slight shelf-wear, clean internals. Inscribed by the author.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. "8vo (the leaf 141x92 mm), 18th cent. 'marbled' vellum, with title in gold on calf label at spine, upper margin a bit short, red sprinkled edges, light wormholes to the first 3 and last 3 leaves, slightly affecting a few letters, light worming at gutter in the blank margin towards the end, for else in good condition. Woodcut device on title-page, printed in cursive type, ff. 120. Second edition, printed in the same year 1542 of the first one, edited in Casale Monferrato (which was in 4to format), of this famous dialogue in praise of the women of that town, Casale. As known Franco escaped from Venice at the end of 1539 after his violent controversy with Pietro Aretino (Franco had even been stabbed by a partisan of Aretino, Giovan Ambrogio degli Eusebi, see above), and to took refuge first in Padua and then (with the intention, then set aside, to go in France), in Casale Monferrato, where he was kindly welcomed by the local governor, Sigismondo Fanzino. Franco's stay in the Piedmontese city lasted for seven years, from 1539 to 1546, a period in which he was able to elaborate his panegyric of the women of the place, in which he attributed to them, in addition to the dignity, all sorts of moral value and spiritual. He reveals, in the work, the influence of Mario Equicola's Della natura d'amore. From leaf 99 onwards there are various poems and letters by Franco not included in his correspondence, including the one well-known to Alberto del Carretto "dans laquelle Franco a tracé un tableau dégoûtant de la cour de Rome" (Graesse, II, 628). Gamba, 1403; not in Adams (has the 1st edn); BMC STC Italian, p. 279; Tiraboschi, IV, 136. EDIT16 CNCE 19821. Provenance: stamped ownership entry at bottom of title-page "Ex lib. Lvd. Avrelii", doubtless the Italian scholar and historian Ludovico Aureli (Perugia, 1592 - Rome, 1637), also diplomatic, lawyer and director of the Biblioteca Augusta in Perugia until 1634, when he went once again to Rome, to the court of Pope Urbanus VIII Barberini, where he was involved in the publication of some historical works, included the epitome of Cesare Baronio's 'Annales Ecclesiastici'. It seems that his literary interests were spanning also outside of the field of historical and religious works.".…