Petrarch [Petrarca], Francesco. Librorum Francisci Petra...

      Simone de Lovere & Andrea Torresano, eds. Venice: Andrea Torresano de Asula for Simon de Lovere, 1501, June 17 & March 27. Folio. 2 vols in 1. 314 x 215mm. a-10,b-e8,f10,,ff8,g-o8,p-r10,s-y8, ç8, A-F8,G-I6,K10,L-M6,N-O8;  4, [1]7 lacks [1]8 text leaf -Epistola II], [2]-[7]8. [8]-[11]6, [12]-[13]8, [14]-[15]10, [16]-[17]6, [16b]6, [17b]6, [18]6 [19]6, skips [20], [21]-[[23]8, [24]6. (vol.II lacks [1]8) [612]pp. Modern antique calf, double banded, blind-tooled; marbled edges, printed in double columns in gothic letter, last quire washed with silvery cast, 2 small wormholes in blank fore-margins in the last 12 leaves, title a trifle stained and with a repaired tear at foot, a little unimportant foxing).Provenance: Later 16th-century English signature of Nathaniell Roo. Second collected Latin edition. Andrea Torresano was the father-in-law of Aldus Manitius, who had purchased the press of Nicholas Jenson in 1482/3. In 1515, on Aldus' death, he took charge of the Aldine press until Paulus Manitius came of age. Simon de Luere worked for various printers in Northern Italy.Petrarca or Petrarch (1304-1374) Italian scholar and poet, often considered the "first humanist".He was widely travelled and became the first great Alpinist. His famous series of poems to Laura, the Canzoniere, are still considered some of the greatest poems ever written. "Not only did this culture hero gain an ardant welcome or these ideas and practices (antiquarianism, study of elegant Latin, study of Greek, etc.), but he shaped them into a single movement that came to dominate the culture of the age: to have established the vogue and ideology of classical antiquity and humaniustic studies was Petrarch's most significant achievement. In this sense he was 'the founder of the Renaissance." [Wedeck & Schweitzer, Dictionary of the Renaissance.] EDIT cnce 31762. Adams P773. Fiske Petrarch Coll.2-3. Bernoni,284:141. Hortis 3ff. Renouard, Aldus, 292;1501:1.Ahmanson-Murphy 725,