1553 PETRARCH VELLUM BINDING antique Con l'espositione di M. Giovanni Gesualdo

img{max-width:100%} Petrarca, F. Il Petrarcha. Con l'espositione di M. Giovanni Andrea Gesualdo (...). Venice, G.G. de Ferrari e Fratelli, 15533 parts in 1 volume with continuous pagination(26),16 lvs.,17-667,(1)p., woodcut title, full-page woodcut map, printer's mark and numerous vignettes and initials,  vellum binding with morocco  letterpiece, Size 6 1/2 by 9 1/4" Title-page partially backed to old paper.With old owner's entry (dated 1690); blank margin wormholed at the end (after page 585 to the end)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 14th-century Italian Renaissance and the founding of Renaissance humanism.In the 16th century, Pietro Bembo created the model for the modern Italian language based on Petrarch's works, as well as tho