1538 PIETRO BEMBO Epistolarum Leonis decimi antique VELLUM BOUND 16th CENTURY

img{max-width:100%} BEMBO, Pietro Epistolarum Leonis decimiLyon: Apud Haeredes Simonis Vincentij [Denis de Harsy at colophon], 1538 (dated at colophon)8vo: 4.5 by 6"  (155x100mm).Printer's mark on the title page, woodcut initialsLimp vellum, manuscript title on spine, lacks tiesVery good interior except spot to the upper part of the title page and few minor faded stains.Worn binding, with damage to the vellum at the back cover and at the edge of the spine.432 ppProvenance: Astery Manly (signed on title page).Text in Latin==========================Pietro Bembo, O.S.I.H. (Latin: Petrus Bembus;  1470 – 1547) was an Italian scholar, poet, and literary theorist who also was a member of the Knights Hospitaller, and a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.As an intellectual of the Italian Renaissance (15th–16th c.), Pietro Bembo greatly influenced the development of the Tuscan dialect as a literary language for poetry and prose, which, by later codification into a standard language, became