Catalogo 2013.pdf - Libreria Antiquaria Alberto Govi

the commercial success of the Venetian presses. With the death of his protector Farnese and the election of PopeGiulio III, Della Casa left Rome and, disappointed at not having been elevated to Cardinal, retired to a reflective lifeof writing and reading. It is during this period – sometime between 1551 and 1555 – that he conceived and draftedhis famous Galateo, in the Abbey of Nervesa near Treviso. This work was to become the most celebrated etiquettebook in European history. He died in 1556, probably in the Farnese palace in Rome, and is buried in the Church ofSant’Andrea in Rome. Della Casa is also remarkable as the leader of a reaction in lyric poetry against the universalimitation of Petrarch, and as the originator of a style, which, if less soft and elegant, was more nervous and majesticthan that which it replaced. Toward the end of his life, however, he followed the model of Petrarch, composingsome of the most intense lyrics of the sixteenth century. Published after the death of the poet in 1558, his Rimewould have a great success in literary circles of the time. His use of enjambment, a technique by which the elevensyllable line continues through to the next line, gave his verse a new musicality and power (cf. A. Santosuosso, Vitadi Giovanni della Casa, Rome, 1979, passim).Edit 16, CNCE 16463; Adams, C-812; Index Aureliensis, 132.790; L.D. Green & J.J. Murphy, Renaissance RhetoricShort Title Catalogue 1460-1700, (Aldershot, 2004), p. 161; A. Montador, Pour une histoire des traités de savoir-vivreitaliens, in: “Traités de savoir-vivre en Italie”, (Clermont-Ferrand, 1993), p. 314; A. Santosuosso, The Bibliography ofGiovanni della Casa, (Florence, 1979), p. 33, no. 20. € 1.800,00with the commentaries by Francesco Patrizi42) CONTILE, Luca (1505-1574) - PATRIZI, Francesco (1529-1597) - BORGHESI, Antonio (fl. 2 nd half ofthe 16 th century). Le rime di Luca Contile, divise in tre parti, con discorsi, et argomenti di Francesco Patritio, etM. Antonio Borghesi. Nuovamente stampate. Con le sei canzoni dette le sei Sorelle di Marte. Venezia, FrancescoSansovino et compagni, 1560.8vo; 18 th century vellum over boards, panels with double gilt fillet and gilt fleurons, spine with gilt ornaments andgilt title on red label, marbled end-leaves, gilt edges; (4), 108 leaves. With the printer’s device on the title-page. Avery fine copy from the library of Maruqise Mazzacara di Celenza.FIRST EDITION. The collection is divided into three parts. The first two are dedicated to Isabella Gonzagad’Avalos, marquess of Pescara; the third to Camilla Pallavicina. The first part, containing 50 sonnets and celebratingthe beauty of the famous Giovanna d’Aragona, were composed by Contile during his stay at Ischia in the entourageof Maria d’Aragona (cf. D. Chiomenti Vassalli, Giovanna d’Aragona fra baroni, principi e sovrani del Rinascimento,Milan, 1987, passim).The second part opens with another dedication (Ischia, November 23, 1547) to some of Contile’s Neapolitanfriends and contains 53 sonnets celebrating the Marquis del Vasto, Alfonso d’Avalos, to whom Contile wassecretary. The third part contains poems of miscellaneous arguments, among them some addressed to Contile.The six compositions Le sei sorelle di Marte, at the end ofthe collection, had already been published at Florencein 1556.The short commentaries to the second andthird parts are by Antonio Borghese, whereas the Discorsopreceding the first parts and the commentaries toit are by Francesco Patrizi, who Contile met in the AccademiaVeneziana (cf. L. Bolzoni, La ‘Poetica’ del Patrizi ela cultura veneta del primo Cinquecento, in: “L’Umanesimoin Istria”, V. Branca, ed., Florence, 1983, p. 26).“Metterà conto ricordare come nella raccoltadel Contile, commentata da Francesco Patrizi, sia dariconoscere il manifesto più esplicito, nel campo dellalirica volgare, della poetica sapienziale e platonizzantedell’Accademia Veneziana, cui appartenevano l’autore,il commentatore e il curatore Francesco Sansovino; e cheproprio la Parte prima delle Rime di Luca Contile, canzoniereencomiastico di cinquanta sonetti in lode di IsabellaGonzaga d’Avalos, costituisce il modello formaledella raccolta per Margherita di Valois (48 sonetti e duecanzoni) contenuta nel quarto libro delle Rime di BernardoTasso, antico sodale e corrispondente del poetasenese (ed alla stessa misura si informerà poi il canzonierein morte di Porzia, di 49 sonetti e una canzone, nelquinto libro delle Rime). L’eco del canzoniere filosoficodel Contile sarà per altro ben avvertibile in varie dellerime pubblicate da Torquato nella raccolta degli Eterei”(A. Casu, Sonetti “Fratelli”. Caro, Venier, Tasso, in: “Italique”,no. 3, 2001, pp. 45-87).Contile’s love poems are for Patrizi the only- 46 -