Rime della diuina Vettoria Colonna, marchesana di Pescara
Edition: Con le sue stanze aggiunte et di nuouo con diligentia stampate et ricorrette.
Publisher: Marco Salvioni?
Published: 1539
Place of publication: Venice?
Language: ita
Number of pages: 96
Other titles: Rime della divina Vettoria Colonna, marchesana di Pescara.
Description: One of 3 second eds. of the collected poems of the celebrated Renaissance poet Vittoria Colonna, who inspired the love of Michelangelo, and was friends with the leading Italian humanists of her time.
Notes: Poetry.

Anonymous issue of the "Rime" of the important woman Italian Renaissance poet and close frined to Michelangelo, Vittoria Colonna. The "Rime" consist of her love sonnets celebrating the life of her deceased husband, the condottiere Ferrante Francesco d'Alvalos, Marquis of Pescara, who had spent much of his life at war and died from injuries suffered in the battle of Pavia (1525). This collection, published without her consent the previous year in Parma at the instigation of Filippo Pirogalio, was Victoria Colonna's first appearance in print, although manuscripts of her poetry had been widely circulated. Because of croticism for the unauthorized and incomplete edition of 1538, three editions appeared in 1539, all with additional stanzas and corrections; one is attributed to Zoppini at Florence, another by Marco Salvioni appeared in Venice, and the present version which was published anonymously but possibly by Curzio Toiano de Navo in Venice. There has been no definite priority established yet. The present edition has also been attributed to Marco Salvioni. However, his issue appears with his woodcut device on the title an dlast leaf; this edition also has different text in the title, and the last leaf is blank. All editions are very rare. [47] leaves ; 14 cm. (8vo)

Place of publication and printer inferred from printer's device, signed MS, on verso of final leaf.

Signatures: A-F⁸.

Woodcuts: large publisher's device on last leaf of Marco Salvioni, featuring a bull--one of his front legs raised--standing within a wreath of fruit, leaves, and ribbons; a link between the initials of Salvioni's monogram, "MS" below supports a dagger; see Dennis Rhodes, "Two sixteenth-century Italian devices," British library journal 3 (1977): 135-138, especially p. 135-137 (article also available online through the British Library's Electronic British Library Journal site at bl.uk.eblj).

Text printed in italic type; spaces left for capitals, with guide letters.

Includes preface by Filippo Pirogallo, addressed to Alessandro Vercelli.

Not in Adams, NUC pre-1956, or BM STC Italian, 1465-1600; not in E.M. Cox's "The earliest editions of the Rime," in The Library 4th ser., v. 2 (Mar. 1, 1922), p. 266-68.

EDIT 16 CNCE 12828