FOLENGO Teofilo - ( Merlinus COCAIUS ) - Acquario LODOLA (editor ) - Matthias URBAN or Matthias UNGER ( signed panel binding ) - N.B.S. ( first owner initials ) :
Reference : 53818
" & tractans de crvento certamine muscarum & formicarum. Libellus epistolarum, & epigrammatum, ad varias personas directarum . Venezia, apud Giacomo Simbeni, 1572 , in-12°, 541 pp + (11) nn pp (collation A-Z12) Complete. Later edition of the works of Folengo, principal author of the socalled ''Macaronic poets''. They wrote burlesque poetry a in a mixed jargon of Latin and Italian to parody Italian chivalrous romances. BINDING: This copy a contemporary German binding ( Saxony - Holy Roman Empire). White pigskin over wooden boards, edges painted red. With two functioning brass clasps. On the frontcover a panel representing Charles V (Goldschmidt I.315 ; Weal n° 192). This panel is signed by M.U. (Matthias Urrban or Martin Unger). The back cover has a panel representing the arms of Saxony (with the naked swords). The binding is dated 1573. With the first owner's initials N.B.S. The title page has two ancient manuscript ex-libris. [1] ''Sum Joachimi Neoclasij Rostochiensis'',; underneath is written '' transit ad Davidem Reulinus prioris domini''. There is a small loss of skin at the lower end of the back cover, but the binding and book complete and very well preserved; an attractive copy of a rare dated 16th c. German pigskin binding. Fine example of the European humanist tradition. Within a year of publication in Venice the Latin-Italian text was bound for a wealthy German reader.."