LATINI, Brunetto (ca.1220-ca.1295). Il tesoro...nel qual si tratta le cose che a mortali se apartengono . Venice: G.A. da Sabbio and his brothers for N. Garanta and F. da Salo, 20 May 1528. 8° (147 x 101mm). Title within a woodcut border, small dolphin device on last page, a few woodcut initials, 18th-century portrait of Latini inserted. (A few quires browned and spotted, fore-margin of title-page lightly frayed.) 17th-century Italian vellum. Second edition, with the dedication on the verso of the title-page to Piero Morosini, of Latini's remarkable work which first appeared, in printed form, at Treviso in 1474. The author, a native of Florence and famous for having been Dante's tutor, wrote the Tesoro in France, whither he had been forced to flee as a result of the Ghibelline domination of his own city. It is an encyclopaedic work divided into three parts: the first describes the creation of the world, the laws of nature and the history of mankind from Adam up to the author's own times and includes sections on physics and astrology: the second and third books treat of morals and ethics (largely drawn from Aristotle), rhetoric (taken from Cicero) and politics including much useful information on the contemporary Italian city-states. Much of its importance lies in its being the first book to diffuse the cultural and scientific knowledge of its day in a vernacular language. Sander 3871; Olschki Choix IV, 4734; Gamba 588; Thiébaud 560; Ceresoli p.360.
LATINI, Brunetto (ca.1220-ca.1295). Il tesoro...nel qual si tratta le cose che a mortali se apartengono . Venice: G.A. da Sabbio and his brothers for N. Garanta and F. da Salo, 20 May 1528. 8° (147 x 101mm). Title within a woodcut border, small dolphin device on last page, a few woodcut initials, 18th-century portrait of Latini inserted. (A few quires browned and spotted, fore-margin of title-page lightly frayed.) 17th-century Italian vellum. Second edition, with the dedication on the verso of the title-page to Piero Morosini, of Latini's remarkable work which first appeared, in printed form, at Treviso in 1474. The author, a native of Florence and famous for having been Dante's tutor, wrote the Tesoro in France, whither he had been forced to flee as a result of the Ghibelline domination of his own city. It is an encyclopaedic work divided into three parts: the first describes the creation of the world, the laws of nature and the history of mankind from Adam up to the author's own times and includes sections on physics and astrology: the second and third books treat of morals and ethics (largely drawn from Aristotle), rhetoric (taken from Cicero) and politics including much useful information on the contemporary Italian city-states. Much of its importance lies in its being the first book to diffuse the cultural and scientific knowledge of its day in a vernacular language. Sander 3871; Olschki Choix IV, 4734; Gamba 588; Thiébaud 560; Ceresoli p.360.
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