RINGHIERI, Innocenzo. Cento giuochi liberali, et d'ingegno, nouellamente da M. Innocentio Ringhieri gentihuomo bolognese ritrovati . Bologna: Anselmo Giaccarelli, 1551. 4°. Large woodcut device on title, smaller one at end, with the final blank. (Upper inner margins lightly waterstained, quire Z repeated.) Contemporary limp vellum (slightly worn and soiled). FIRST EDITION of one of the most celebrated Renaissance books on courtly intellectual entertainment, dedicated to Cathérine de Médicis and containing chapters on palmistry, chess, hunting, fishing, playing-cards and music. The chapter on painting mentions some thirty artists including Michelangelo, Mantegna, Raphael, Leonardo, Titian and Andrea del Sarto Adams R564; Brunet IV, 1268; van der Linde Schachlitteratur 2184.
RINGHIERI, Innocenzo. Cento giuochi liberali, et d'ingegno, nouellamente da M. Innocentio Ringhieri gentihuomo bolognese ritrovati . Bologna: Anselmo Giaccarelli, 1551. 4°. Large woodcut device on title, smaller one at end, with the final blank. (Upper inner margins lightly waterstained, quire Z repeated.) Contemporary limp vellum (slightly worn and soiled). FIRST EDITION of one of the most celebrated Renaissance books on courtly intellectual entertainment, dedicated to Cathérine de Médicis and containing chapters on palmistry, chess, hunting, fishing, playing-cards and music. The chapter on painting mentions some thirty artists including Michelangelo, Mantegna, Raphael, Leonardo, Titian and Andrea del Sarto Adams R564; Brunet IV, 1268; van der Linde Schachlitteratur 2184.
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