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1530. Parisiis, Ex officina Simonis Colinaei, 1530. 8vo. Bound in a very fine later full calf (around 1700), profusely gilt spine, titlelabel in leather with gilt lettering, broad gilt borders on covers, edges of covers gilt, edges of leaves gilt. A very small nick to top of spine. (8) lvs. + (1-)256,(3) lvs. + 1 blank. A small and very faint dampstain to upper inner margins of the first 8 lvs. Otherwise very clean throughout. A beautifull printed and wide-margined copy (17x11,5 cm). Scarce second edition of the "opera" of the poetical works of both father and son. Their collected opere were first published by Aldus Manutius in 1513, together with works of his son, under the title Strozii poëtae pater et filius. The offered edition is copied from this Aldus-edition. They were both members of the famous Strozzi-family exiled from Florence.Adams S 1957. - Graesse VI: 512.

First Edition of the works of the Humanists Tito and Ercole Strozzi collected by Aldus Manutius
Strozzi, Tito Vespasiano & Strozzi, Ercole. Strozii poetae pater et filius. Venetijs : in aedibus Aldi et Andreae Asulani soceri, 1513.
2 parts, 8vo (15,5 x 10 cm), XVIII century stiff vellum binding, marbled edges, ff. [8], 152 (this part often bound at the end), 99, [1], Aldus printer device (U538) at title page and at f. t8v, Aldus Manutius dedicatory letter to Lucrezia Borgia at ff. A2-A3r; Aldus epitaph for Ercole Strozzi at f. N3v-N4r; funeral oration by Celio Calcagnini for Ercole Strozzi at t4-8r; signature πA⁸ a-i⁸ K⁸ l-t⁸ A-M⁸ N⁴, (N4v blank), colophon at f. N3r "Venetijs : in aedibus Aldi et Andreae Asulani soceri, 1513", other colophon at f. t8r.

The volume contains the Eroticon by Tito Strozzi, followed by the Poems of his son Ercole, a collection published by Aldus Manutius on a request of Lucrezia Borgia, Duchess of Ferrara, dedicatee of the work.
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