Rime di diversi antichi autori toscani in dieci libri raccolte. Di Dante Alighieri lib IIII. Di M. Cino da Pistoia libro I Di Guido Caualcanti libro I Di Dante di Maiano libro I di Fra Guittone d'Arezzo lib. I. Di diuersi canzone e sonetti senza nome d'autore libro I.

A DA SABBIO EDITION

Title within a woodcut frame, individual title to separate books printed on verso of leaves. 

8vo (148 x 100mm). ff. 148. 18th-century Italian vellum, red morocco label (minor chipping to label, neatly repaired, worming to spine, not touching text block).  

 

(Venice: G.A. & fratelli da Sabio,1532)

A corrected edition, from the press of the da Sabbio brothers in Venice, of the seminal Giunta anthology of 1527 (see Pettas, 219), complete with the original general preface by Bernardo Giunta (fl.1518-1550) addressed to 'young men who are lovers of Tuscan poetry'. 

The first, 1527 edition of this collection by Bernardo Giunta - now known colloquially as the Giuntina di rime antiche - was the first of a significant trend established by the Giunta press, that of the scholarly anthology of poetry (Pettas, pp.39-40). Prior to this, anthologies of poetry had circulated in manuscript - Lorenzo de Medici' commissioned one such collection, the Raccolta Aragonese, in the late fifteenth century on behalf of Frederick of Aragon - but this was the first to appear in print, and significantly contributed to the canonization of works of medieval romantic verse in the Tuscan vernacular, presenting an alternative to the purism of Pietro Bembo and radical Petrarchism (see Fondation Barbier-Muller). It 'represents an important critical and philological enterprise, confirming the role of the tuscan tradition in the renewal of Italian poetry at the beginning of the sixteenth century' (Fondation Barbier-Muller).

The anthology contains sonnets and canzoni by Dante, along with poets of the dolce stil novo and the sicilian and bolognese schools. Based on several incomplete manuscripts, procured by Bardo Segni, Giunta compares the establishment of the texts as being similar to the work of an archaeologist, digging in Rome.  The section devoted to Dante contains the Rime, and the poems of the Vita nuova (the full text of which was not published until 1576).

Occasional sporadic staining, but a good copy. 

CNCE 32312; Sander 6489.

Stock Code: 227363