Adams, C-804; William A. Pettas, The Giunti of Florence, pp. 242 & 246.<\/i><\/p>\n
First edition. A very fine copy belonging to William Beckford, bound with the arms of Jacques-Auguste de Thou.<\/span><\/p>\n Second issue, with title and colophon dated 1567.<\/p>\n This finely printed book contains the Latin works (prose and rime) of Giovanni Della Casa (1503-1556), one of the most important authors of Renaissance litterature in Italy, notably of Galateo<\/i> \u2013 a highly influential treaty on good manners \u2013 and his Rime<\/i>, one of the most important collections of poetry of the 16th century. The Latina monimenta<\/i>, published by a friend of the author, the humanist Piero Vettori (1499-1585), opens with a letter by Annibale Rucelai, Della Casa’s nephew, to Vettori, followed by the answer of the latter. The book contains Latin poetry, the De officiis inter potentiores & tenuiores amicos<\/i> (1546) \u2013 written before Galateo \u2013, the account of the lives of Pietro Bembo and Gaspare Contarini, etc.<\/p>\n With an added woodcut portrait of Giovanni Della Casa, mounted on a leaf inserted before the title. Very fine copy, bound in contemporary red morocco for the great collector Jacques-Auguste de Thou (1553-1617) with his coat of arms (bachelor) and cypher.<\/p>\n Other provenances : William Beckford (Hamilton Palace, cat. 1882, p. 120, n\u00b0 1641). \u2013 Henry J. B. Clements (book plate).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 4to (221 x 146 mm) 12 nn.ll., 210 pp., 1 nn.l. (the last 2 blanks removed by the binder). Contemporary French red morocco, triple gilt filet on cover, central coat of arms of Jacques Auguste de Thou bachelor (OHR 216), flat spine gilt, with the collector’s cypher, gilt edges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":79538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[530],"product_tag":[1243,1270,1267,1450],"class_list":{"0":"post-79549","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-binding","7":"product_tag-16th-century-literature","8":"product_tag-armoured","9":"product_tag-binding","10":"product_tag-first-edition","11":"pa_auteur-della-casa-giovanni-2","12":"pa_type-de-livre-printed-book","14":"first","15":"instock","16":"shipping-taxable","17":"purchasable","18":"product-type-simple"},"acf":{"artist":" Giovanni DELLA CASA","chapeau":"The de Thou copy","adresse_bibliographique":"Florence, H\u00e9ritiers de Bernardo I Giunta, 1567","book_type":"Printed book","provenance":"","afficher_prix":""},"yoast_head":"\n