Ragionamenti accademici di Cosimo Bartoli gentil'huomo et accademico fiorentino sopra alcuni luoghi difficili di Dante : con alcune inuentioni & significati, & la tauola di piu cose notabili.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bartoli, Cosimo, 1503-1572.

Contributor:

Franceschi, Francesco de, printer.

Macauley Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Italian Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321--Criticism and interpretation.

Dante Alighieri.

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.

Criticism and interpretation.

Penn Provenance:

Macauley, Francis Campbell (donor)

Rimington, J.W. (autograph)

Physical Description:

6 unnumbered leaves, 77 leaves, 1 unnumbered leaf : portrait (woodcut) ; 21 cm (4to)

Fingerprint:

m-a- a.a. taue damo (3) 1567 (A)

Place of Publication:

In Venetia : Appresso Francesco de Franceschi senese, 1567.

Summary:

A late work by Cosimo Bartoli, cast in the form of dialogues between Bartoli and various of his contemporaries, covering a wide variety of different subjects, including difficult passages in Dante.

Notes:

Signatures: *⁶ A-S⁴ T⁶.

Woodcuts: Franceschi's device on title page (oval medallion containing seated female figure of Peace (Pace), her left arm holding an olive branch, her right arm resting atop a cornucopia; with motto on left and right, "Per me qui si riposa, en ciel si gode"); repeated on verso of final leaf; large white historiated initials; head-pieces; full-page portrait of the author within ornamental cartouche on t.p.

Preface printed in roman type; text in italic type, with printed marginal notes in roman.

Errata: recto of leaf [1] at end.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy bound in full brown leather with gold-tooled double-fillet panel on covers; gold-tooled designs on spine and on cover edges; all edges green; marbled endpapers.

Culture Class Collection copy is from the Macauley Library.

Culture Class Collection copy has the autograph of J.W. Rimington on verso of front free endpaper.

Cited in:

Adams B-278

BM STC Italian, 1465-1600, p. 74

Grässe, J.G.T. Trésor de livres rares et précieux, 1:303

Olschki, L.S. Letteratura dantesca (Catalogo LXXV), p. 46, no. 234

EDIT 16 CNCE 4301

OCLC:

123209848