List 1-2013.pdf - Libreria Antiquaria Alberto Govi

) DELLA CASA, Giovanni (1503-1556) - BINI, Giovanni Francesco (ca. 1484-1556). Le terze rime de Messer Giovanni
Dalla Casa di Messer Bino et d’altri. (Venezia), Curzio Troiano Navò & fratelli, 1538.
(36) leaves. With a large printer’s device on the title-page and at the end: a rampant lion on a shield hold by two Roman soldiers ‘Fabio’
and ‘Scipion’. The printer’s device at the end is grossly filled out in brown ink, some light dampstains, a very good copy.
SECOND EDITION of the burlesque verses of Della Casa and Bini. The volume also includes an anonymous composition, Capitolo del
ravanel and the first known publication by the painter Agnolo Bronzino (1503-1593), Capitolo del pennello (cf. D. Parker, Bronzino. Renaissance
Painter as Poet, Cambridge, pp. 24-28). Two composition attributed to della Casa, Il Forno and Il Bacio, are printed here for the
first time (cf. A. Corsaro, Giovanni della Casa, poeta comico, in: “Per Giovanni della Casa: richerche e contributi. Gargano del Garda, 3-5
ottobre 1996”, G. Barbarisi & C. Berra, eds., Bologna, 1997, pp. 123-173).
Giovanni della Casa, born into a rich Florentine family, spent his formative years in Bologna where he studied law and especially
literature, becoming part of a literary circle that included Pietro Bembo and Lodovico Beccadelli, with whom he went to Padua in order to
complete his humanistic education by learning Greek. After 1532 Della Casa settled in Rome and began an ecclesiastical and diplomatic
career under the protection of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese
(later Pope Paul III). He became clerk to the Apostolic
Chamber, papal emissary to Florence, archbishop of Benevento
and papal nuncio to Venice (in this charge he was
responsible for the compilation of the Index of 1549). After
the accession of Julius III to the papacy in 1551, Della Casa
retired to Venice and occupied himself with his writing. He
was recalled to Rome in 1555 by Pope Paul IV, who made
him secretary of state to the Vatican, but he failed to obtain
a desired cardinalship before his death a year later. His most
successful work was the famous Galateo (1558), a treatise
on manners (cf. A. Santosuosso, Vita di Giovanni Della
Casa, Roma, 1979, passim).
Giovanni Francesco Bini, a native of Florence, was
assistant to Jacopo Sadoleto in the Segreteria dei Brevi, and
later became his successor in that position. He also was canon
of Santa Maria Maggiore. Like his fellow accademician
Berni, he was a member in the Roman Accademia dei
Vignaiuoli (cf. G. Ballistreri, Bini,Giovanni Francesco, in:
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