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BEMBO, Pietro (1470-1547). Epistolarum Leonis Decimi Pont. Max. Nomine Scriptarum Libri XVI. Lyon: Jacques Giunta [Thibaud Payen], 1540. 8vo. Printer’s woodcut device on title page, historiated initials (light age yellowing, occasional spotting, minor staining, slight worming in first gathering, joints weakening) Contemporary vellum over boards with 19th century paper cover (hinges split, pastedowns lightly wormed). Provenance: Piero Petri and Pietro Andrea Forzoni Accolti (1639-1719), poet and secretary to the Cardinal Francesco Maria de’ Medici in Rome and then to Cosimo di Cosimo III; member of the Arcadian Academy (1691) and of the Accademia della Crusca (1708) (signatures). Important collection of private and official letters; including an epistle to Erasmus , by one of the representatives of the Italian Renaissance. Not in Brunet; Graesse, I, 333. SCARCE.