1611 PIETRO BEMBO EPISTOLARUM antique vellum bound 17th CENTURY

PIETRO BEMBO

Epistolarum, libri XVI.
Paulo III. Pontif. Maxim. dicati. eiusdem familiarium Epistolarum...


Strasbourg, Zetzner;  1611

922 (recte 924) pp., 6 leaves.

Original vellum binding, spine with traces of manuscript tile

-VD17 3:306192U. -

Collection of letters first published in folio in 1535. 

Title page stamped and with early manuscript ownership entry.

 Very good interior, binding worn and stained.

Size: 4 by 7 inches

Text in Latin
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Pietro Bembo (Latin: Petrus Bembus;1470 – 1547) was a Venetian scholar, poet, and literary theorist who also was a member of the Knights Hospitaller and a cardinal of the Catholic Church.
As an intellectual of the Italian Renaissance (15th–16th c.), Pietro Bembo greatly influenced the development of the Tuscan dialect as a literary language for poetry and prose, which, by later codification into a standard language, became the modern Italian language. In the 16th century, Bembo's poetry, essays and books proved basic to reviving interest in the literary works of Petrarch. In the field of music, Bembo's literary writing techniques helped composers develop the techniques of musical composition that made the madrigal the most important secular music of 16th-century Italy.
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