Petrarca [Petrarch], Francesco

Li Sonetti, Canzoni, Et Triomphi... Nuovamente revisi, & alia sua integra ridotti

      Venice:: Agostino Bendone for Francesco Bindoni & Mapheo Pasini,, 1542.. Modern sheep, title gilt on spine, wormed with text losses, some archivally repaired.. 8vo.. T.p.in fine woodcut border (trimmed at fore-margin), 6 ful-page woodcuts in Triomphi (from the Zoppino edition of 1526). 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 ardent 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 humanistic studies was Petrarch's most significant achievement. In this sense he was 'the founder of the Renaissance." Wedeck & Schweitzer, Dictionary of the Renaissance.#11;This is a rare edition which, despite its worming and lacking text at the end. has quite attractive woodcuts. EDIT 16 CNCE 23355 [4 copies only.] Adams P808. Sander 5633 (other eds.)