1553 I TRIONFI DEL PETRARCA ILLUSTRATED antique Francesco Petrarch

img{max-width:100%} Petrarch, Francesco (1304-1374) I Trionfi del Petrarca, Con La Spositione Di M. Giovanni Andrea Gesualdo Da TraettoVenice: for Domenico Giglio, [1553].Two parts in one volume, large quattro, each with its own separate title page printed within a woodcut border incorporating busts of Petrarch and Laura; illustrated with six vignettes, edited with commentary by Giovanni Andrea Gesualdo;the The Triumphs section bound first in this copy; bound in full 17th century French speckled calf with gilt-tooled spine, worn with losses to endcaps, boards are firmly attached; very good interior, armorial bookplate of the Bibliotheque de Rosny inside front board (torn with loss)Size 8 x 6 in.Text in Italian============================================Francesco Petrarca (1304 – 1374), commonly anglicized as Petrarch, was a scholar and poet of early Renaissance Italy, and one of the earliest humanists.Petrarch's rediscovery of Cicero's letters is often credited with initiating the 14t