(1548-49). [DOMENICHI (Ludovico)]. RIME DIVERSE DI MOLTI ECC - Lot 232

(1548-49). [DOMENICHI (Ludovico)]. RIME DIVERSE DI MOLTI ECCELENTISS. AUTTORI NUOVAMENTE RACCOLTE. Venice, Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, 1549 (vol. 1 and 1548 for vol. 2). 2 volumes of 374-[26] pages and [3]-177-[11]-1bl. leaves, bound in 1 volume in-8, stiff vellum, richly decorated spine, blue edges (later binding). "This collection was a considerable success, in both commercial and literary terms, and set the model for a form of publishing of poetic texts, with a totalizing vocation, offering all Italian authors, destined to continue until the end of the century. The volume is dedicated to Don Hurtado de Mendoza, Spanish ambassador to Venice from 1539 to 1547, before taking up his post in Rome. Mendoza was known as a collector of antique manuscripts and a bibliophile". (Barbier-Mueller). This third edition, published in 1549, bears the Libro primo on the title, added on the second-issue copies of 1546, since a Libro secondo had meanwhile been published in 1548. Some foxing on the title, but a fine copy. From the library of the Marquis de Terzi with his bookplate (Cat. of his sale in 1861 n°960) (USTC, 803371).