Hard high-country poems
By: Michelangelo Buonarroti Simoni ; English translation by Robert Bringhurst ; drypoint engraving by Joseph Goldyne
Contributors: Colonna, Vittoria, 1492-1547, addressee; Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564; Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564; Bringhurst, Robert, translator; Girardi, Enzo Noè, editor; Goldyne, Joseph R., etcher; Koch, Peter Rutledge, book designer, printer; Gerken, Jonathan, printer; Bixler, Michael, compositor; Livingston, Mark, compositor; Carta di Amalfi; John DeMerritt Bookbinding; Peter Koch, Printer
Publisher: Peter Koch, Printer
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Berkeley, California]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 28
Subjects: Poetry; Artists as authors
Notes: "Ten of the poems connected to Vittoria Colonna are included here. In the standard edition of Enzo Girardi--my point of reference for the Italian text--they are numbers 63, 111, 142, 151-153, and 239-242"--Translator's preface.

"Designed and printed by Peter Rutledge Koch with the assistance of Jonathan Gerken. ... The Italian poems were composed by Michael Bixler in Monotype Arrighi with hand refilnements by Mark Livingston. The translation was handset by Mr. Livingston from original foundry Vicenza & Arrighi types cut in 1925-26 by Charles Plumet for Frederic Warde. The preface and colophon pages were composed in digital Centaur & Arrighi. The poems are printed on vintage Amalfi handmade paper that has been in the possession of the press for twenty-five years. The portrait of Michelangelo by Joseph Goldyne, inspired by a drawing by Daniele da Volterra, was printed on British handmade paper by Robert Townsend, Master Printer, R.E. Townsend Studio. Bookbinding by John DeMerritt. The edition is limited to 126 copies, 112 of which are numbered, ten artist's proofs designated AP 1-10 and four printers proofs designated PP 1-4"--Colophon.

Rare Book copy: No. 26; signed by the translator, the illustrator, and the printer.

Issued in decorated slipcase with: The typographic legacy of Ludovico degli Arrighi / Robert Bringhurst. [Berkeley, California] : Peter Koch, Printer, MMXV [2015]

Parallel text in English and Italian.