[Rarebooks] FS: Illustrated 1750 Collection of Songs for Carnivals, etc., apparently never bound, price reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced:  WAS $1000    NOW $750 NET

[GRAZZINI, Antonio Francesco (editor)]. TUTTI I TRIONFI CARRI, 
MASCHERATE O CANTI CARNASCIALESCHI ANDATI PER FIRENZE DAL TEMPO DEL 
MAGNIFICO LORENZO DE' MEDICI FINO ALL' ANNO 1559. In questa seconda 
Edizione corretti, con diversi MSS. collazionati, delle loro varie 
lezioni arricchiti, notabilmente accresciuti, E co' RITRATTI DI CIASCUN 
POETA ADORNATI. Cosmopoli [Lucca]: [Pel Benedini], 1750. Second Edition. 
Two quarto (6-1/2" x 9") volumes; [1]-256; [257]-594 pages. Illustrated 
with two engraved allegorical pictorial title pages and 44 inserted 
portraits engraved after contemporary prints, paintings, and medallions. 
Among those depicted are Lorenzo Medici and Niccolo Machiavelli, both of 
whom contribute songs to this collection. A very interesting copy for 
several reasons. First, it exists in an unbound state with modern board 
covers and appears never to have been bound previously. On the 
half-title page of each volume in early ink is written a statement in 
Italian regarding one F. Enrico of Bologna applying for license. This 
copy matches the second impression point of Brunet, V, columns 988-989, 
regarding the spelling of "Mostreremvelo," but the information regarding 
signatures OO and PP and the errata does not match either the first or 
second impression. Graesse, VI: II, page 217, which essentially repeats 
in distilled form the information in Brunet. No endpapers present; 
offsetting to text from portraits. Near Fine.

A collection of songs for carnivals, processions, masquerades, etc., 
first published in 1559. Grazzini, the compiler, was better known as "Il 
Lasca, Academico Fiorentino," a quarrelsome scholar regarded as one of 
the masters of Italian prose. (#015988)        $750.00

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