1553 I TRIONFI DEL PETRARCA ILLUSTRATED antique Francesco Petrarch

Petrarch, Francesco (1304-1374)


 I Trionfi del Petrarca, Con La Spositione Di M. Giovanni Andrea Gesualdo Da Traetto

Venice: for Domenico Giglio, [1553].

Two parts in one volume, large quattro, each with its own separate title page printed within a woodcut border incorporating busts of Petrarch and Laura;

illustrated with six vignettes, edited with commentary by Giovanni Andrea Gesualdo;

the The Triumphs section bound first in this copy;

bound in full 17th century French speckled calf with gilt-tooled spine,
worn with losses to endcaps, boards are firmly attached; very good interior, 
armorial bookplate of the Bibliotheque de Rosny inside front board (torn with loss)

Size 8 x 6 in.

Text in Italian

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Francesco Petrarca (1304 – 1374), commonly anglicized as Petrarch, was a scholar and poet of early Renaissance Italy, and one of the earliest humanists.

Petrarch's rediscovery of Cicero's letters is often credited with initiating the 14th-century Italian Renaissance and the founding of Renaissance humanism.
In the 16th century, Pietro Bembo created the model for the modern Italian language based on Petrarch's works, as well as those of Giovanni Boccaccio, and, to a lesser extent, Dante Alighieri.
Petrarch would be later endorsed as a model for Italian style by the Accademia della Crusca.

Petrarch's sonnets were admired and imitated throughout Europe during the Renaissance and became a model for lyrical poetry. He is also known for being the first to develop the concept of the "Dark Ages," which most modern scholars now find misleading and inaccurate.


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