Stanze pastorali
CASTIGLIONE, Baldassarre.
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[ALDINE POETRY] FIRST EDITION. 8vo. ff. 112 (viii). Italic letter, little Roman. Woodcut Aldine device to t-p, decorated initials. Slight spotting to a few ll. An exceptionally clean, excellent copy in C18 quarter vellum, gilt-lettered label to spine, C19 bibliographical information, casemark to front pastedown, armorial bookplate of Baron Landau. Exceptionally good, clean copy of the first edition of a pastoral composition written jointly by Baldassarre Castiglione and Cesare Gonzaga. A commercial enterprise, it features a dedicatory letter by the poet Anton Giacomo Corso explaining how Castiglione and Gonzaga s Eclogue had been preserved in ms. in his own library for a long time and was now being finally revealed to the world incidentally together with the second edition of his own rime , which occupies most of the work. Castiglione (1478-1529) was a courtier, soldier, diplomat and greatly influential author. His name appears indeed at the top of the t-p of this edition, published a quarter of a century after his death and the publication of Il Cortegiano the internationally-acclaimed manual for courtiers in the Renaissance. Cesare Gonzaga (1476-1512), cousin of Castiglione, was a soldier at the court of Urbino and a poet. The Eclogue , attributed almost entirely to Castiglione, is a dialogue between the shepherds Tirsi, Iola and Dameta, whose pleasures in harping for their nymphs come close to martyrdom . It was his first vernacular composition inspired by the ottava rima of Politian and the tradition of pastoral drama. Originally staged as a play called Tirsi at the court of Urbino in 1506, it remained unpublished until 1553; one ms. copy was owned by Pietro Bembo in Venice, a member of the intellectual circle of Domenico Venier to which Corso (fl. 1540s) belonged. A beautifully printed testimony to Renaissance court culture. USTC 819515; Renouard 157:18; Ahmanson-Murphy 450; BM STC It., p. 156; Brunet I, 1631; Fontanini II, 59; Gamba 1299. J. Cartwright, Baldassarre Castiglione: The Perfect Courtier, 2 vols(London, 1908), vol. 1. Seller Inventory # L3097
Bibliographic Details
Title: Stanze pastorali
Publisher: Venice haer. Aldo I Manuzio
Publication Date: 1553
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Edition: 1st Edition
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