Triomphi di Carlo di Messer Francesco d'i Lodouici Vinitiano. Colophon: Stampato in Vinegia per Mapheo Pasini & Francesco Bindoni compagni al segno dell'angiolo Raphaello appresso san Moisè l'anno della nostra salute MDXXXV del mese di Settembre

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<p>4to (194x144 mm). [4], 215 leaves. Collation: +<sup>4</sup> A-DD<sup>8</sup>. Lacking l. DD8, a blank. Almost full-page woodcut illustration on the title page depicting the author offering his book to Doge Andrea Gritti, dedicatee of the work. <em>Colophon</em> on l. DD6v, <em>errata</em> on l. DD7r. The verso of ll. DD7 and O3 is blank. Roman and italic type. Text printed in two columns. Modern stiff vellum, inked title on the lower edge. On the title page ownership inscription “Gio. Filippo Sertorio” (cf. F. Missere Fontana, <em>Il viaggio di Hubert Goltz a Modena e il collezionismo privato di monete antiche</em>, in: “Mutina splendidissima. La città romana e la sua eredità”, Rome, 2017, pp. 502-503). Repair to the verso of the title page, margins cut short, large pale staining throughout the volume, brown stain on l. C8.</p> <p>First edition, first issue (the work was reissued with a different title page in 1536), of this epic poem celebrating the victories of Charlemagne and his paladins. The poem, divided into two parts (the second begins at l. O4r), each comprising 100 cantos, is written in terzine, the same verse used by Dante in the Divine Comedy.</p> <p>Edit 16, CNCE61149; Sander, 4008; Adams, L-1400; Essling, II.2, p. 664; Melzi-Tosi pp. 194-95; Mortimer, 262.</p>

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