98 - Petrarch, Francesco. *Il Petrarcha*. Tusculano, Paganino Paganini, 1521. An illuminated copy that belonged to the bibliophile De Marinis

Petrarch, Francesco. *Il Petrarcha*. Tusculano, Paganino Paganini, 1521. An illuminated copy that belonged to the bibliophile De Marinis Petrarch, Francesco. *Il Petrarcha*. Tusculano, Paganino Paganini, 1521. Work declared to be of particular importance by the Archival and Bibliographic Superintendence of Tuscany, pursuant to Articles 10, paragraph 3, letters a) and d), and 13 of Legislative Decree No. 42 of January 22, 2004, as amended and supplemented. In 24th format (102 x 52 mm); CLXI, [1] leaves. Text in italics, 3 illuminated pages: the frontispiece featuring a coat of arms and the motto “Quanto fia quel piacer se questo è tanto” within a phytomorphic frame with a weeping male portrait in profile; the second page with a monogram within a red frame and gold decorations; the third, a full-page illustration with the work’s title in a gilded frame featuring a shell and cornucopia (missing sections, defects, color loss, restorations, stains). Eighteenth-century full-parchment binding with a handwritten title on the spine (worn). A note of ownership by Irene Chiapusso. On the endpapers are autograph notes by Tammaro De Marinis, who writes: “When this little volume was rebound, probably toward the end of the 18th century, it belonged to the Maffoni brothers. A certain Luigi Maffone is mentioned in Vallanzi’s history of poetry in Piedmont. The line ‘Quanto fia qual piacer se questo è tanto?’ in the first miniature is by Petrarch from the canzone “I’vo pensando,” CCLXIV, 54. Fumagalli describes this edition as *très recherché* (p. 427). Mary Fowler, *Catalogue*, p. 91.” An illuminated book that belonged to the bibliophile De Marinis