Bruni,L.

Libro de la guerra de Ghotti composta da M. Leonardo Aretino in lingua latina & fatto volgare da Lodovico Petroni Cavaliere Senese nuovamente stampato. Venice, Zoppino 1528. title with wide figural woodcut board. 87 num. With woodcut printer's mark at the end. Interim printed boards of the time (partly fl. and somewhat dusty, rubbed, corners with small tears). Cf. BM, Italian books 128 (edition Giunta 1526) and Graesse I, 186 (Latin edition "De bello Italico adverus Gothos" from 1471). Early (second ?) Ital. First published by Guinta in Florence in 1526. - The beautiful illustrated title with a portrait and a battle scene. - The manuscript of the translation by the Sienese humanist L. Petroni, dated 1478, was, according to the preface, already completed in 1456 and is now in The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore. - The Ital. Bruni (ca. 1369-1444) is considered one of the main representatives of Italian Renaissance literature. Renaissance literature. - Titles at upper margin slightly trimmed and browned, binding somewhat loosened, in places somewhat fl. and waterstained. With erased hs. Entry on the back.