FRANCESCO I -- GUALTEROTTI, Raffaelo. Feste nelle nozze del Serenissimo Don Francesco Medici Gran Duca di Toscana; et della Sereniss. sua consorte la sig. Bianca Cappello . Florence: Giunti, 1579. 8°, 2 parts. Woodcut title border with putti and grotesques, in second state with the 1569 grand-ducal crown inset above the Medici arms at head, view of Florence in cartouche at foot. 16 folding etched plates after Gualterotti by Accursio Baldi and Bastiano Marsili, printed in black. Plate F, the chariot of Venus, in first state with the hair of Venus blowing forward. Giunta device of the Medici and Cappello arms on H2 v . Two large historiated initials with battle and hunting scenes, type ornaments. (Occasional light thumb-soiling.) Crimson morocco by Thibaron-Joly, spine in compartments titled and dated in gilt, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, t.e.g. FINE COPY. FIRST EDITION WITH FULL DESCRIPTION AND ILLUSTRATION OF THE PAGEANT AND TOURNEY HELD IN OCTOBER 1579 CELEBRATING THE CORONATION OF BIANCA CAPPELLO. Francesco de Medici had married Bianca Capello, his mistress, in June, 1578, following the death of his first wife, Joanna of Austria. The notes on the title page and in Filippo and Jacopo Giunta's dedication to Bianca Capello indicate an earlier edition, anonymous and unillustrated and apparently untraced by bibliographers. Adams G1355; Brunet II, 1772 recorded as 15 plates; Cicognara I, 1388; Lipperheide II, 2740; Mortimer Italian I, 224; Vinet I, 605 recorded as 15 plates. For a description of the entertainment and its theatrical machinery, see P. Gori Firenze magnifica: le feste fiorentine attraverso i secoli (Florence, 1930, pp. 154-165).
FRANCESCO I -- GUALTEROTTI, Raffaelo. Feste nelle nozze del Serenissimo Don Francesco Medici Gran Duca di Toscana; et della Sereniss. sua consorte la sig. Bianca Cappello . Florence: Giunti, 1579. 8°, 2 parts. Woodcut title border with putti and grotesques, in second state with the 1569 grand-ducal crown inset above the Medici arms at head, view of Florence in cartouche at foot. 16 folding etched plates after Gualterotti by Accursio Baldi and Bastiano Marsili, printed in black. Plate F, the chariot of Venus, in first state with the hair of Venus blowing forward. Giunta device of the Medici and Cappello arms on H2 v . Two large historiated initials with battle and hunting scenes, type ornaments. (Occasional light thumb-soiling.) Crimson morocco by Thibaron-Joly, spine in compartments titled and dated in gilt, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, t.e.g. FINE COPY. FIRST EDITION WITH FULL DESCRIPTION AND ILLUSTRATION OF THE PAGEANT AND TOURNEY HELD IN OCTOBER 1579 CELEBRATING THE CORONATION OF BIANCA CAPPELLO. Francesco de Medici had married Bianca Capello, his mistress, in June, 1578, following the death of his first wife, Joanna of Austria. The notes on the title page and in Filippo and Jacopo Giunta's dedication to Bianca Capello indicate an earlier edition, anonymous and unillustrated and apparently untraced by bibliographers. Adams G1355; Brunet II, 1772 recorded as 15 plates; Cicognara I, 1388; Lipperheide II, 2740; Mortimer Italian I, 224; Vinet I, 605 recorded as 15 plates. For a description of the entertainment and its theatrical machinery, see P. Gori Firenze magnifica: le feste fiorentine attraverso i secoli (Florence, 1930, pp. 154-165).
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