Venezia, eredi di Aldo Manuzio, 1554.
8vo of 201 ll. numbered 205, (3) ll., anchor of Aldus Manutius on the title and at the back of the last leaf. Red morocco, triple gilt fillet around the covers, spine ribbed, gilt edges. 19th century binding.
156 x 93 mm.
Edizione originale in ii emissione con il fascicolo o duerno.
Raccolta di grande importanza nella storia della poesia italiana.
Adams, M-1005; Ahmanson-Murphy, 473; Renouard, 162.
First edition of the poems of Lorenzo de’ Medici.
Al centre vi è il Concetto platonico dell’amore considerato come Incarnazione della divina bellezza e, al di là della forma che non nasconde I richiami al Petrarca e agli « stilnovisti » i contenuti ribaditi nell’ampio commento dello stesso Lorenzo, esprimono forte capacità innovativa nel filone del recupero della filosofia di Platone e del pensiero di Marsilio Ficino.
Nicknamed Lorenzo il Magnifico, he is a true prince of the Renaissance: generous patron, in love with life and full of culture, poet at his hours, he can also be despotic, amoral and ruthless.
In his villa of Careggi, near the city, he meets with philosophers, artists and scholars from his time, chatting with them about great texts from the past and new ideas, welcoming them at his table.
Among these artists and these beautiful minds, Botticelli, Donatello and Verrocchio, Marsile Ficin, neoplatonist philosopher (from the school of Plato), Leon-Battista Alberti, Pic de la Mirandole… The young Michel-Angelo even has his own bedroom in the palace of via Larga.
Very fine copy in a morocco binding attributable to Bauzonnet.
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