Secreto de Francesco Petrarcha
Subtitle: in dialogi di latino in vulgar & in lingua toscha tradocto ; nouamente cum exactissima diligentia stampato & correcto
Publisher: Per Nicolo Zopino & Vicentio compagno
Published: 1520
Place of publication: Impresso in Venetia
Language: ita
Number of pages: 160
Subjects: Rare books
Other titles: Secreto
Work titles: Secretum
Description: Second ed. in Italian (following the first printed in Siena in 1517) of Petrarch's introspective essay, Secretum, which he originally composed in Latin as a dialogue with St. Augustine, following a moral and religious crisis in 1342-1343.
Notes: [159] pages: illustrations; 16cm. Translation from Latin into Italian by Francesco Silvio Orlandini

Translated by Francesco Orlandini, whose preface appears on p. [2]-[3], followed by short poems by Achille Orlandini, Giovanni Baccato, Eurialo Morano and Nicola Montano.

Title-page in gothic and roman types, in red and black; caption title in gothic and roman type, in red and black; text in roman, in two columns.

Woodcuts: large title vignette (102 x 77 mm) of Petrarch wearing a laurel wreath, surrounded by four other laurel-crowned poets standing under laurel trees, signed "Z.A.", initials which Nagler (Die Monogrammisten V, no. 2051) identified as those of Zoan Andrea, a pupil of Mantegna; Zoppino's device on p. [159] (St. Nicholas on his throne, with printer's initials "N.Z." on either side); ornamental initials; tail-pieces

Signatures: A-K⁸.

Last page is blank.

Short-title catalogue of books printed in Italy and of Italian books printed in other countries from 1465 to 1600 now in the British Museum, page 507

Sander, M. Livre à figures italien depuis 1467 jusqu'à 1530, 5595

Brunet, J.-C. Manuel du libraire et de l'amateur de livres (5e éd.), volume 4, column 567

National union catalog, pre-1956 imprints, 453:342