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2009Adhya-9780387751146SPRINGER 2009. Hardcover. New. SPRINGER hardcover
2009Adhya-9780387751146SPRINGER 2009. Hardcover. New. SPRINGER hardcover
a78943Bergamo 1759 1st Appresso Pietro Lancellotti. In Italian. Hardcover. Sm.4to. xii 220pp. vignette on title page impressive and fine full page copperplate portrait of St. Charles Borromeo as frontis errata page lovely hand stamped red and green floral paper covered boards with 3/4 vellum. Owner signed on top corner of title page and two lines of old ink notation on rear end paper no other ownership marks. VG ink spine label mostly faded away faint rippling throughout text. . hardcover
1901539159New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1901. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition thus. Translated from the Italian and annotated by Leonard Eckstein Opdycke. With seventy one portraits and fifteen autographs reproduced by Edward Bierstadt. Large quarto. Japon vellum gilt. Boards a trifle soiled from handling very near fine. Copy number 454 of 500 numbered copies. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown
159053261Venice: L'Isole Piu Famoso del Mondo. Simon Galignani. 1590. Oval map of the world. The maps for this atlas were engraved by Girolamo Porro from Padua and are set within a page of text with engraved headpiece and decorated initial. There were many editions of this popular atlas between 1576 and 1713. Size:197 x 297 mm. Copper engraving. Hand coloured. A fine crisp impression. Fine condition. Moreland and Bannister p.68 unknown
166814426Milano: Giovanni Battista Ferrari 1668. Esemplare privo dell’antiporta allegorica ma ben completo di tutte le carte inclusa quella bianca all’inizio della seconda opera e l’ultima col registro. Piccolo lavoro di tarlo va a ledere qualche parola sulle ultime carte del De Spiritibus dedica moderna sulla prima carta bianca. Legatura d’epoca in pergamena rigida in quarto cm 30 x 20.5 pp 24 438 2 8 102 ma 94 per errore tipografico la numerazione delle pagine salta da 80 a 89 2. Esemplare privo dell’antiporta allegorica ma ben completo di tutte le carte inclusa quella bianca all’inizio della seconda opera e l’ultima col registro. Piccolo lavoro di tarlo va a ledere qualche parola sulle ultime carte del De Spiritibus dedica moderna sulla prima carta bianca. Prima edizione della celebre farmacopea milanese stampata per generazioni dalla famiglia Branda Castiglioni che ne mantenne il privilegio fino agli anni ’30 del secolo XVIII; Giovanni Onorato Castiglione iscritto al Collegio dei Medici di Padova nel 1633 fu Regio Protomedico di Milano. Dedica titolo e alcune parti del testo sono in latino ma il ricettario vero è proprio è in italiano. L’antidotario illustra diverse preparazioni farmaceutiche vini medicali pillole cerotti ecc; la seconda opera con proprio frontespizio il saggio sugli spiriti e i semplici tratta fra la l’altro di preparazioni cosmetiche profumi e saponi delle spezie dell’imbalsamazione e varie altre curiosità. Krivatsky n. 2597; Vinciana 1872: «Edizione originale di quest’unica opera dell’Autore il quale ebbe per essa molto onore». Giovanni Battista Ferrari unknown
15385257Venice: Vettor de Rabani Vittore Ravani e compagni 1538. Acceptable/Early edition of the Book of the Courtier one decade after the first edition printed by Vittore Ravani who worked his late father Pietro's print shop with his mother Luchina during the 1530s. They had help from Melchiore Sessa. Most of their output centered on reprinting humanist bestsellers such as the present title Ariosto's Satires Benivieni's Ars Moriendi Erasmus's Adages and so on. . Octavo 16cm; 5 193 leaves lacks final two leaves blank but for printer's device on recto of BB7. Initial spaces with guide letters; printer's device two-tailed siren on title page. Italic type throughout. Bound in nineteenth-century green cloth with polished calf backstrip titled in gilt on spine. Lower margin of title page excised early on and repaired with place and year of publication inscribed in ink. Generally clean and fresh copy with occasional discoloration in first and last leaves and along edges. Not in Adams. Vettor de Rabani [Vittore Ravani] e compagni hardcover books
1771C05844 books in 2 volumes: 8xvi255 pages with frontispiece; 205 pages with index and errata. Octavo 8" x 5 3/4 bound in stiff wrappers with lables to spines and deckle edges. This edition not in Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana; however there are a number of listings for this title in the bibliography 4315 through 4330 listing 16 editions of various dates and publishers. First published in 1528.<br /><br />Baldassare Castiglione count of Novilara was an Italian courtier diplomat soldier and a prominent Renaissance author. He was born into an illustrious Lombard family at Casatico near Mantua. In 1494 at the age of sixteen Castiglione began his humanist studies in Milan which would eventually form his future writings. However in 1499 after the death of his father Castiglione left his studies and Milan to succeed his father as the head of their noble family. Soon his duties seem to have included representative offices for the Gonzaga court. For the Gonzaga he traveled quite often; during one of his missions to Rome he met Guidobaldo da Montefeltro duke of Urbino. Urbino was at that time the most refined and elegant among Italian courts a meeting point of culture ably directed and managed by duchess Elisabetta Gonzaga and her sister-in-law Maria Emilia Pia. The most constant guests included: Pietro Bembo Giuliano de' Medici Cardinal Bibbiena Ottaviano and Federigo Fregoso and Cesare Gonzaga a cousin of both Castiglione and the duke. The hosts and guests organized intellectual competitions which resulted in an interesting stimulating cultural life producing brilliant literary activity. Castiglione wrote about his works and of those of other guests in letters to other princes maintaining an activity very near to diplomacy though in a literary form. In 1516 Castiglione was back in Mantua where he married Ippolita Torelli descendant of another ancient noble family; two passionate letters he wrote to her expressing deep sentiment have survived but she unfortunately died only four years later. At that time Castiglione was in Rome again as an ambassador this time for the Duke of Mantua. In 1521 Pope Leo X conceded to him the tonsura first sacerdotal ceremony and thereupon began Castiglione's second ecclesiastical career. In 1528 the year before his death the book by which he is most famous The Book of the Courtier Il Libro del Cortegiano was published in Venice by the Aldine Press run by Andrea d'Asolo father-in-law of Aldus Manutius. The book is based on a nostalgic recreation of Castiglione's experience at the court of Duke Guidobaldo da Montefeltro of Urbino at the turn of the sixteenth century. It describes the ideal court and courtier going into great detail about the philosophical and cultured and lively conversations that occurred at Urbino presided over by Elisabetta Gonzaga. Castiglione himself does not contribute to the discussion the book is his tribute to his friendship with the participants of the discussion all of whom went on to have important positions. The Book of the Courtier caught the "spirit of the times" and was soon translated into Spanish German French and English. One hundred and eight editions were published between 1528 and 1616 alone. Pietro Aretino's La cortigiana is a parody of this famous work. Castiglione's depiction of how the ideal gentleman should be educated and behave remained for better or for worse the touchstone for all the upper classes of Europe for next five centuries. The work on chess is in the second book of this work.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />Old stamps to title of volume two and first un-numbered page of volume one Spine ends chipped with loss to heal corners bumped wrappers rubbed else a good copy of scarce title. Vendramini Mosca hardcover books
49Genève s. n. 1777 1è éd. française . 1 vol. in-4 ( 24,5 x 20 cm)CXXIV ppEn frontisp. remarquable portrait du prince de Castiglione d'après Domenico Corvi gravé par Giovanni Volpatto.En fin de la première partie, figure un Sonnet de Corilla au prince philosophe (en italien).Pleine basane mouchetée. Dos lisse orné de fleurons dorés; p. de titre maroquin havane. Roulettes dorées encadrant les plats. Toutes tranches dorées. Gardes marbrées.Qqs épidermures er rayures sur les plats. Mors inférieur fendu sur 1 cm en tête. Petite tâche marginale p. CV.
Carta murale particolareggiata del territorio dei dintorni di Lonato, Castiglione, Montichiari e Castenedolo. La carta, contenuta in astuccio coevo con segni di usura, è divisa in quattro fogli telati e piegati editorialmente, solamente i due fogli di dx. sono colorati
1766BB1797Padova Padua: Appresso Giusseppe Comino 1766. Early Reprint. Full Calf. Fine. An important reprint of Aldine's first edition of 1528 discarding the extensive alterations to the text that corrupted editions of this classic treatise on etiquette for more than a century. 4to 23 x 16 cm xxiv 352pp with portrait frontispiece of Castiglione after Raphael illuminated initials and head and tail pieces throughput. Modern vellum and marbled boards spine titled in gilt. Included is the "best and fullest biography of Castiglione which was written by Abate Pietro Serassi who had access to the family papers brought to Rome by Cardinal Valenti Gonzaga secretary to Pope Benedict XIV." Cartwright A very scarce wide-margined survival tightly bound contents clean with only light occasional foxing. PMM 59. Razzollini p. 99. Gamba 296 for Comino's complete edition of Castiglione's works from 1733 upon which this edition is based. Cartwright v. 2 pp. 445-447. First printed in Venice by Aldine Press in 1528 then reprinted innumerable times since in every major European language. The Courtier is the most celebrated instruction manual on the courtly manners of the Italian High Renaissance "a veritable compendium of Renaissance culture." Literary Encyclopedia In 1590 Pope Sixtus V placed it on the Church's List of Prohibited Books but exempted the expurgated edition prepared by Antonio Ciccarelli which was the only edition that remained in circulation for more than 100 years. Finally in 1733 Volpi issued an edition of Castiglione's collected works that disregarded Ciccarelli's corruptions and reverted to the original Aldine edition. Our edition is a reprint here of Volpi's text of The Courtier and it exists in two states unmutilated and mutilated. According to Razzollini more than a thousand copies originally were printed but only one hundred were issued and only after the text primarily Book IV was extensively revised to incorporate Ciccarelli's changes and elisions reducing the original text to 303 pages vs. 352 pages in unmutilated copies. Our is one of the rare unmutilated copies beautifully preserved. N. B. With few exceptions always identified we only stock books in exceptional condition. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association and we subscribe to its codes of ethics. Appresso Giusseppe Comino unknown
1761168701761 Amsterdam, Marc Michel Rey, 1761, 3 parties en 2 tomes rel. en 1 vol. in 4 de (6)-XVIII-310-(2) pp. ; (4)-288 pp. ; (2)-134-(2) pp., pages de titres imprimées en rouge et noir, 37 planches dépliantes gravées, rel. début XIXe de plein veau brun raciné, dos richement orné de fers dorés, pièce de titre de maroquin rouges, tranches jaspées de couleurs, bel ex.
185677880Paris 1856 | 30 x 24 cm | une feuille sous marie-louise
185677880Paris 1856. Fine. Paris 1856 30 x 24 cm une feuille sous marie-louise Original ink drawing signed and dated by Charles Robert titled ""Madame la Comtesse de Castiglione et Napoléon III ou Le bal aux Tuileries le mardi 29 janvier 1856"". This drawing immortalizes the historic meeting of the 19-year-old Countess de Castiglione with Emperor Napoleon III at a ball given by his cousin Princess Mathilde. Invested by Cavour with a delicate diplomatic mission the Countess came to Paris with the aim of seducing the Emperor and making him sympathetic to the Piedmontese cause and thus convert him to the idea of a unified Italy. She had a famed affair with the Emperor which strengthened ties between France and Italy before coming to an end as Italian carbonari made an attempt on the Emperor's life the following year. Aesthetic representation of the early days of this Italian Mata Hari as ambassador and spy to the French imperial court. unknown
190521639Paris, Félix Juven (Imprimerie Paul Dupont), (1905) ; petit in-8, bradel de percaline à coins vert lentilles d’eau, pièce de titre chair (reliure de l’époque) ; XXXIV, 313 pp., [1] f. de table.
1913AMA-147Paris, Goupil, 1913. in 8°, plein maroquin aubergine, dos à nerfs orné de caissons dorés, décor doré sur les plats, tête dorée, roulette intérieure dorée et gardes de soie verte, couverture conservée, menus défauts à la reliure restaurée (Reliure de Durvand). (3)ff.-VII-247 pp.-(1)f.,
155475<p>4to 214x152 mm. 8 135 1 leaves. Collation: 4 †4 a-z4 A-L4. With the large woodcut portrait of the author on the title page and the printer's device on last leaf verso. Contemporary limp vellum inked title on the spine and lower edge remnants of ties new endpapers small stains. On title page manuscript ownership's inscription Ballybay Library. Inner margin of the title page reinforced small holes to the gutter of the first two leaves with no loss of text small ink stain on the upper blank margin at the end of the volume otherwise a very good genuine copy.</p><p>FIRST COMPLETE EDITION. First published in Bologna in 1546 containing only seventy-two chapters the <em>Ricordi</em> appeared in an enlarged edition in 1549 124 chapters also in Bologna. The present definitive edition containing 133 'ricordi' was edited by Zaccaria Bellenghi Fra Sabba's chaplain in Faenza shortly after the latter's death. The work became very popular and between 1546 and 1613 twenty-five editions were published.</p><p>In the present edition is also found for the first time the title woodcut showing Fra Sabba in his study. Ugo Rozzo <em>Lo studiolo nella silografia italiana 1479-1558</em> Udine 1998 pp. 90 114 deems this frontispiece to be remarkable for the mid-sixteenth century both for its Hospitaller imagery and its display of books within the study. The woodcut is emblematic of Sabba's monastic life conducted within the Order's parameters of social utility. He presents an iconographic image of the devout humanist knight who prefers the tranquility of his Commenda to the bustle of the city see also D. Thornton <em>The Scholar in his Study: Ownership and Experience in Renaissance Italy</em> New Haven CT 1997 pp. 106-114.</p><p>The work consists of two series of "avvertimenti" advices each closely related to Castiglione's initial idea of providing to his grandnephew Bartolomeo Righi useful hints on how to become a perfect knight Hospitaller but its numerous printings in the sixteenth century and its breadth of scope suggest a wider target audience. The other 'ricordi' were developed into true small treatises or essays that Castiglione expanded and augmented in every new edition. Despite not having a wide-ranging extent nevertheless they present a considerable interest especially when compared to the works of contemporaries on the same topics i.e. the life of a courtier the government of a city the prince and the tyrant men of arms and religion marriage how to decorate a house clothes food and drink physical exercise travel etc. But included were also his life in Faenza his political aspirations linguistic experiments ideas on religious reform. Geopolitical issues of the day are vigorously engaged and farcical passages replete with colloquial phrasing appear alongside passionate theological discourse expressing a strident anti-Lutheran viewpoint cf. C. Scarpati <em>Per il testo dei 'Ricordi'</em> in: "Studi sul Cinquecento italiano" Milano 1982 pp. 68-82; see also D.F. Allen <em>The Hospitaller Castiglione's Catholic Synthesis of Warfare Learning and Lay Piety on the Eve of the Council of Trent</em> in: "The Hospitallers the Mediterranean and Europe: Festschrift for Anthony Luttrell" K. Borchardt & al. eds. London 2016 pp. 286-298.</p><p>The <em>Ricordi</em> is also very interesting from the point of view of art history and criticism showing Fra Sabba's antiquarian efforts for Isabella d'Este his admiration for Dürer's prints and the artists he had known at Rome e.g. Gian Cristoforo Romano Bramante Raphael Cristoforo Foppa 'Il Caradosso' the San Gallo family just to mention a few cf. M. Collareta <em>Il mondi dell'arte dei 'Ricordi' di Fra Sabba</em> in: "Sabba da Castiglione 1480-1554. Dalle corti rinascimentali alls Commenda di Faenza. Atti del Covegno Faenza 19-20 maggio 2000" A.R. Gentilini ed. Florence 2004 pp. 297-312.</p><p>At the end of the volume is reprinted another work by Fra Sabba the <em>Consolatoria</em> written during his stay at Rhodes November 25 1517. This consolatory epistle addressed to the Milanese poet Camilla Scarampi for the death of her husband Ambrogio Guidoboni. This letter was published at Bologna in 1529. From the dedication dated March 15 1527 to Giacomo Guicciardini vice-president of Romagna we learn that Fra Sabba had submitted the work in the last ten years to Niccolò Machiavelli and Panfilo Sassi asking them if they considered it worthy of being published M.C. Tarsi <em>Una poetessa nella Milano di primo Cinquecento Samilla Scarampi</em> in: "Giornale storico della letteratura italiana" 192/639 2015 pp. 414-451.</p><p>Sabba da Castiglione was an instance of the self-fashioned courtier-knight of the later Renaissance who combines an unusual set of roles: Hospitaller commander canon regular art collector courtier poet and preceptor of knightly rules. He was born in Milan around 1480 where he also became his first. education. He pursued post-secondary studies at the University of Padua studying jurisprudence from about 1500 to late spring 1505 but did not finish his legal education. After a brief stay in Mantua in 1505 at the age of 25 he decided to join the Order of the Knights of Jerusalem later called Knights of Malta of which he soon became Deputy Attorney General. He lived in Rhodes until 1508 then moved to Rome where he sojourned seven years as legal aide-de-camp to the admiral of the Order of the Knights Hospitaller and later Grand Master Fabrizio del Carretto cultivating his interest in the arts and literature. In Rome he also met his cousin Baldassare Castiglione author of Il <em>Cortegiano</em>. Fra Sabba was a passionate forerunner of archaeology and during his stay on the Aegean Sea he was able to procure several ancient marble pieces to Isabella d'Este in Mantua. In 1515 at the age of thirty-five Fra Sabba became a Hospitaller commander accepting a post previously held by his friend Giulio de' Medici the future Pope Clement VII. He took up residence at the Order's Commenda or commandery a district headquarters similar to a feudal estate in Faenza Romagna part of the Papal States. He accepted this post to better dedicate himself to the studies he loved so much away from mundane affairs the intrigues of courts and military life. His residence in Faenza was the Church of Commenda Saint Mary Magdalene also called 'Magione' dating back to the XII century. It was not in good conditions when Fra Sabba came. This was due to the fact that previous commanders had not chosen the complex of the Commenda as their own living place employing their revenues for other purposes. In 1533 Fra Sabba entrusted Girolamo da Treviso with the task to embellish the church with a fresco portraying the 'Enthroned Madonna between Saint Mary Magdalene and Saint Catherine of Alexandria'. Another work of art of great importance accomplished in the year of his death is the one painted by Francesco Menzocchi from Forlì: a monochrome fresco depicting him as an old man presented by Saint Joseph to the Virgin. Underneath this image lies Fra Sabba's sepulchre with a Latin epigraph composed by himself. His interests as a man of study and collector gave birth to a library unfortunately lost and to a collection of pieces of art whose surviving items are to be seen in the Pinacoteca Comunale of Faenza F. Petrucci <em>Sabba da Castiglione</em> in: "Dizionario biografico degli italiani" 22 1978 pp. 100-106.</p><p>Edit 16 CNCE 10159; Universal STC 819593; Index Aureliensis 133.665; R.M. Bell <em>How To Do It. Guides to Good Living for Renaissance Italians</em> Chicago IL 1999 p. 337; C. Scarpati <em>op. cit.</em> p. 89.</p> Paolo Gherardo
155475<p>4to 214x152 mm. 8 135 1 leaves. Collation: 4 †4 a-z4 A-L4. With the large woodcut portrait of the author on the title page and the printer's device on last leaf verso. Contemporary limp vellum inked title on the spine and lower edge remnants of ties new endpapers small stains. On title page manuscript ownership's inscription Ballybay Library. Inner margin of the title page reinforced small holes to the gutter of the first two leaves with no loss of text small ink stain on the upper blank margin at the end of the volume otherwise a very good genuine copy.</p><p>FIRST COMPLETE EDITION. First published in Bologna in 1546 containing only seventy-two chapters the <i>Ricordi</i> appeared in an enlarged edition in 1549 124 chapters also in Bologna. The present definitive edition containing 133 'ricordi' was edited by Zaccaria Bellenghi Fra Sabba's chaplain in Faenza shortly after the latter's death. The work became very popular and between 1546 and 1613 twenty-five editions were published.</p><p>In the present edition is also found for the first time the title woodcut showing Fra Sabba in his study. Ugo Rozzo <i>Lo studiolo nella silografia italiana 1479-1558</i> Udine 1998 pp. 90 114 deems this frontispiece to be remarkable for the mid-sixteenth century both for its Hospitaller imagery and its display of books within the study. The woodcut is emblematic of Sabba's monastic life conducted within the Order's parameters of social utility. He presents an iconographic image of the devout humanist knight who prefers the tranquility of his Commenda to the bustle of the city see also D. Thornton <i>The Scholar in his Study: Ownership and Experience in Renaissance Italy</i> New Haven CT 1997 pp. 106-114.</p><p>The work consists of two series of "avvertimenti" advices each closely related to Castiglione's initial idea of providing to his grandnephew Bartolomeo Righi useful hints on how to become a perfect knight Hospitaller but its numerous printings in the sixteenth century and its breadth of scope suggest a wider target audience. The other 'ricordi' were developed into true small treatises or essays that Castiglione expanded and augmented in every new edition. Despite not having a wide-ranging extent nevertheless they present a considerable interest especially when compared to the works of contemporaries on the same topics i.e. the life of a courtier the government of a city the prince and the tyrant men of arms and religion marriage how to decorate a house clothes food and drink physical exercise travel etc. But included were also his life in Faenza his political aspirations linguistic experiments ideas on religious reform. Geopolitical issues of the day are vigorously engaged and farcical passages replete with colloquial phrasing appear alongside passionate theological discourse expressing a strident anti-Lutheran viewpoint cf. C. Scarpati <i>Per il testo dei 'Ricordi'</i> in: "Studi sul Cinquecento italiano" Milano 1982 pp. 68-82; see also D.F. Allen <i>The Hospitaller Castiglione's Catholic Synthesis of Warfare Learning and Lay Piety on the Eve of the Council of Trent</i> in: "The Hospitallers the Mediterranean and Europe: Festschrift for Anthony Luttrell" K. Borchardt & al. eds. London 2016 pp. 286-298.</p><p>The <i>Ricordi</i> is also very interesting from the point of view of art history and criticism showing Fra Sabba's antiquarian efforts for Isabella d'Este his admiration for Dürer's prints and the artists he had known at Rome e.g. Gian Cristoforo Romano Bramante Raphael Cristoforo Foppa 'Il Caradosso' the San Gallo family just to mention a few cf. M. Collareta <i>Il mondi dell'arte dei 'Ricordi' di Fra Sabba</i> in: "Sabba da Castiglione 1480-1554. Dalle corti rinascimentali alls Commenda di Faenza. Atti del Covegno Faenza 19-20 maggio 2000" A.R. Gentilini ed. Florence 2004 pp. 297-312.</p><p>At the end of the volume is reprinted another work by Fra Sabba the <i>Consolatoria</i> written during his stay at Rhodes November 25 1517. This consolatory epistle addressed to the Milanese poet Camilla Scarampi for the death of her husband Ambrogio Guidoboni. This letter was published at Bologna in 1529. From the dedication dated March 15 1527 to Giacomo Guicciardini vice-president of Romagna we learn that Fra Sabba had submitted the work in the last ten years to Niccolò Machiavelli and Panfilo Sassi asking them if they considered it worthy of being published M.C. Tarsi <i>Una poetessa nella Milano di primo Cinquecento Samilla Scarampi</i> in: "Giornale storico della letteratura italiana" 192/639 2015 pp. 414-451.</p><p>Sabba da Castiglione was an instance of the self-fashioned courtier-knight of the later Renaissance who combines an unusual set of roles: Hospitaller commander canon regular art collector courtier poet and preceptor of knightly rules. He was born in Milan around 1480 where he also became his first. education. He pursued post-secondary studies at the University of Padua studying jurisprudence from about 1500 to late spring 1505 but did not finish his legal education. After a brief stay in Mantua in 1505 at the age of 25 he decided to join the Order of the Knights of Jerusalem later called Knights of Malta of which he soon became Deputy Attorney General. He lived in Rhodes until 1508 then moved to Rome where he sojourned seven years as legal aide-de-camp to the admiral of the Order of the Knights Hospitaller and later Grand Master Fabrizio del Carretto cultivating his interest in the arts and literature. In Rome he also met his cousin Baldassare Castiglione author of Il <i>Cortegiano</i>. Fra Sabba was a passionate forerunner of archaeology and during his stay on the Aegean Sea he was able to procure several ancient marble pieces to Isabella d'Este in Mantua. In 1515 at the age of thirty-five Fra Sabba became a Hospitaller commander accepting a post previously held by his friend Giulio de' Medici the future Pope Clement VII. He took up residence at the Order's Commenda or commandery a district headquarters similar to a feudal estate in Faenza Romagna part of the Papal States. He accepted this post to better dedicate himself to the studies he loved so much away from mundane affairs the intrigues of courts and military life. His residence in Faenza was the Church of Commenda Saint Mary Magdalene also called 'Magione' dating back to the XII century. It was not in good conditions when Fra Sabba came. This was due to the fact that previous commanders had not chosen the complex of the Commenda as their own living place employing their revenues for other purposes. In 1533 Fra Sabba entrusted Girolamo da Treviso with the task to embellish the church with a fresco portraying the 'Enthroned Madonna between Saint Mary Magdalene and Saint Catherine of Alexandria'. Another work of art of great importance accomplished in the year of his death is the one painted by Francesco Menzocchi from Forlì: a monochrome fresco depicting him as an old man presented by Saint Joseph to the Virgin. Underneath this image lies Fra Sabba's sepulchre with a Latin epigraph composed by himself. His interests as a man of study and collector gave birth to a library unfortunately lost and to a collection of pieces of art whose surviving items are to be seen in the Pinacoteca Comunale of Faenza F. Petrucci <i>Sabba da Castiglione</i> in: "Dizionario biografico degli italiani" 22 1978 pp. 100-106.</p>Edit 16 CNCE 10159; Universal STC 819593; Index Aureliensis 133.665; R.M. Bell <i>How To Do It. Guides to Good Living for Renaissance Italians</i> Chicago IL 1999 p. 337; C. Scarpati <i>op. cit.</i> p. 89. Paolo Gherardo books
1990102595Sagep Editrice S. P. A. New. 1990. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- Text in Italian. 270 pp. With 235 ills. 64 col. . 28 x 21 cm. -- with a bonus offer-- . Sagep Editrice S. P. A. hardcover
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158557784Paris: Par Nicolas Bonfons 1585. 8vo pp. xxx 678 xxx. Title vingette bound in contemporary full vellum spine title in ink cover bit wrinkled lacks the front blank expert repair to the blank portion of the title page not affecting any letter press a very good copy. STC French p. 94;. An edition of the best C16th French translation of Castiglione's Cortigione by Gabriel Chapuis published simultaneously in Lyon Rouen and Paris a near exact reprint of the first of 1580 of tremendous influence in France. This translation was also published in Britain in 1588 in Wolfe's trilingual edition along with the equally influential English translation by Thomas Hoby. Chapuis states that his reason for attempting a new translation is in the same way that the Perfect Courtier described in the book cannot actually exist neither can the perfect translation and he felt that previous attempts had fallen short of the high standards demanded by Castiglione's masterpiece. Wikipedia: "Baldassare Castiglione December 6 1478 - February 2 1529 count of Casatico was an Italian courtier diplomat soldier and a prominent Renaissance author who is probably most famous for his authorship of The Book of the Courtier. The work was an example of a courtesy book dealing with questions of the etiquette and morality of the courtier and was very influential in 16th century European court circles. Castiglione was born into an illustrious family at Casatico near Mantua. In 1528 the year before his death the book for which Castiglione is most famous The Book of the Courtier Il Libro del Cortegiano was published in Venice by the Aldine Press run by the heirs of Aldus Manutius. The book in dialog form is an elegiac portrait of the exemplary court of Guidobaldo da Montefeltro of Urbino during Castiglione's youthful stay there at the beginning of the sixteenth century. It depicts an elegant philosophical conversation presided over by Elisabetta Gonzaga whose husband Guidobaldo an invalid was confined to bed and her sister-in-law Emilia Pia. Castiglione himself does not contribute to the discussion which is imagined as having occurred while he was away. The book is Castiglione's memorial tribute to life at Urbino and to his friendships with the other members of the court all of whom went on to have important positions and many of whom had died by the time the book was published giving poignancy to their portrayals of the Ducal Palace at Urbino setting of the Book of the Courtier. The conversation takes place over a span of four days in the year 1507. It addresses the topic proposed by Federigo Fregoso of what constitutes an ideal Renaissance gentleman. In the Middle Ages the perfect gentleman had been a chivalrous knight who distinguished himself by his prowess on the battlefield. Castiglione's book changed that. Now the perfect gentleman had to have a classical education in Greek and Latin letters as well. The Ciceronian humanist model of the ideal orator whom Cicero called "the honest man" on which The Courtier is based prescribes for the orator an active political life of service to country whether in war or peace. Scholars agree that Castiglione drew heavily from Cicero's celebrated treatise De Officiis "The Duties of a Gentleman" well known throughout the Middle Ages and even more so from his De Oratore which had been re-discovered in 1421 and which discusses the formation of an ideal orator-citizen. Par Nicolas Bonfons unknown books
17771309Geneve 1777. Quarto. 7 3/4†x 9 1/2â€. Contemporary red morocco ruled with gilt floral sprays and pointelles at corners. Covers show a few small gouges spine rubbed and worn label frayed. Marbled endpapers bookplate of Edmond Couleru. Notes in pen and pencil on title. Stain on front blank otherwise very bright and clean. Four changes to the text in contemporary hand on pXXX. A stamp “Sold by H.M. Stationery Office†on p.XXXI indicates that the text was sold in England.<br/><br/> Pagination: One leaf verso with frontis portrait of Gonzaga after Corvi engraved by Giovanni Volpatto Designer and engraver. B. Bassono 1733 D. Rome 1803. Leaf of title verso blank text pages 1-124 in Roman numerals: Collation 1l A-P4 Q2. Contents: p III: Homme de Lettres Bon Citoyen; p. XXI: Reflexions sur la Poesis p. XXVII Essay Analytique sur les Decouvertes Capitales de L’Esprit Humain. The work ranges over modern philosophers including the English empiricists. It also discusses the American revolution. The last essay was given at the Royal Society in London 1777. <br/><br/> Luigi Gonzaga prince of Castiglione 1745-1819 was a scholar and a native of Vienna. His lineage was from the ancient house of Gonzaga a noble family that ruled Mantua in Northern Italy from 1328 to 1708; they also ruled Monferrato in Piedmont and Nevers in France. His family was a subbranch of the Gonzaga and Solferino family. His parents were Ferdinand III of Castiglione and Elena Medin. Childless he was the last in the line of this branch of the Gonzaga family. Luigi Gonzaga became a scholar traveler and activist and who read and followed the philosophers of the enlightenment and understood the need for progressive measures to support civil rights freedom and democracy.<br/><br/> Expelled from Venice for his progressive ideas Luigi Gonzaga became first a refugee then an exile then a tolerated member of a learned and ancient family. During his stay in Rome he became a friend of the poet Maria Maddalena Morelli. He was elected to membership in the patrician Pontificia Accademia degli Arcadi. Founded Rome 1690 The “Accademia degli Arcadi†was an important if archly conservative force in classical literature and culture until the 20th century.<br/><br/> First published Roma : B. Francesi 1776 as Il Letterato buon cittadino discorso filosofico e politico di. Don Luigi Gonzaga di Castiglione with extensive running commentary by Luigi Godard. A second edition in French in 12mo was published in Paris : Barrois l'aîné 1785.<br/><br/> Ref: Portalupi Napoleone. Sulla legittimitÅ• dei principi Gonzaga della linea di Vescovato per . Milano 1871.<br/><br/> Provenence : Edmund Coleru author of .Au pays de l'absinthe. MontbeÄ›liard Impr. MontbeÄ›liardaise 1908 unknown books
02332New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1901. The Classic Courtesy Book<br/>Newly Translated<br/>Bound By Gruel<br/><br/>GRUEL Léon binder. CASTIGLIONE Count Baldesar. The Book of the Courtier 1528. Translated From the Italian and Annotated by Leonard Eckstein Opdycke. With Seventy-One Portraits and Fifteen Autographs Reproduced by Edward Bierstadt. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1901. <br/><br/>First edition of the new English translation limited to 500 copies this being copy no. 199. Quarto 10 9/16 x 7 7/8 in; 274 x 200 mm. xii 2 439 1 pp. Seventy-one portraits and fifteen autograph reproductions with captioned tissue guards. <br/><br/>Bound by Léon Gruel stamp-signed in full contemporary crushed antelope brown morocco with decoratively gilt borders and a central panel enclosed by an elaborately blindstamped frame. Black crushed morocco doublures with wide dentelles and gilt cornerpieces. Navy blue ribbed linen endleaves. All edges gilt. Some very light rubbing to upper joint but still a superlative copy.<br/><br/>Baldassare Castiglione 1478 - 1529 count of Casatico was an Italian courtier diplomat and soldier. Originally published by the Aldine Press of Venice in 1528 his The Book of the Courtier remains the definitive account of Renaissance court life and is considered to be one of the most important books to emerge from that period. Amongst the most widely distributed books of the 16th century with editions printed in six languages and in twenty European centers the 1561 English translation by Thomas Hoby had a great influence on the English upper class's conception of a proper English gentleman. The total number of editions to date now exceeds 140.<br/><br/>Binder and gilder Léon Gruel 1841 - 1923 began working in the family bindery established in 1825 after his father assumed control of the Desforges binding workshop in Paris. In 1891 he became sole owner employing a large number of artisans. In 1887 Gruel published Manuel historique et bibliographique de l'amateur de reliures in which he argued for a synthesis of styles promoting the acceptance of non-traditional decoration for modern bindings. In practice he matched this belief with a diverse range of emblematic and pictorial covers. The binding under notice eschews the pictorial for a more traditional approach heightened by his use of elaborate and progressive blindstamping influenced by the Arts & Crafts movement. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1901 unknown books
