Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (2 Volumi)
Features
Author: Francesco Colonna
Publisher: Editrice Antenore
Place of printing: Padua
Year of publication: 1964
Necklace: Erudite Itinera
Product Condition:
These copies are in excellent condition. Cloth bindings with slightly faded gilt titles on the spines. Gilded headpieces. Perfect interior. The volumes are housed in a slipcase with dust spots and minimal signs of wear; note a scuff on the edge of one of the covers. Text in Latin.
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Pages: XV,468;343
Format: In fourth
Dimensions (cm):
Height: 32
Width: 22
Description
Critical edition and commentary edited by Giovanni Pozzi and Lucia A. Ciapponi. Francesco Colonna's Il Polifilo, a literary and typographical masterpiece of Italian humanism, no longer printed in cast type since 1545, is published for the first time in a critical edition based on the text and woodcuts from the 1499 Aldine incunabulum, accompanied by a commentary volume, thanks to the generous and enlightened contribution of the Cassa di Risparmio di Padova e Rovigo. One thousand three hundred numbered copies, six hundred of which are not for sale, are on Ventura di Cernobbio paper. Our copy is no. 950. Volume One: Text. Volume Two: Commentary.
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