The life of Guidobaldo da Montefeltro (d. His philological dialogue on the poem Culex attributed to Vergil and on works of Terence, in which he analyzed textual errors introduced over time into the manuscript tradition, was begun as early as 1503 and revised at intervals until it was published in this first edition of 1530. De Aetna, first published by Aldus Manutius in 1495, commemorates his youthful ascent of Mt Etna during the two-year period (1492-94) he spent in Sicily studying Greek with Constantine Lascaris. The works included reflect various aspects of Bembo's humanistic interests and activities over a large part of his career. They are frequently found bound together, as here in the author's copy. Though printed with discrete series of signatures and with separate colophons and privilege statements, the four works found in this volume seem nevertheless to have been produced as a set by the same publisher in a uniform format. This volume contains changes made over a period of time, but never published, for three of the works printed in these editions of 1530. He held texts for a long time before publishing them, and then continued to make revisions with a view to future editions. Bembo is known to have worked and reworked his writings. Giuseppe Martini: bookplate and pencilled collation note on flyleaf (sale, Part I, Lucerne: Hoepli, 27 August 1934, lot 21).īEMBO'S OWN COPY OF FOUR OF HIS WORKS, WITH EXTENSIVE UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT REVISIONS IN HIS HAND. Thomas Herbert, eighth Earl of Pembroke (1656-1733): binding, shelfmark, pencilled instructions to binder on first leaf, annotation in English on the flyleaf: 'This was Bembo's Booke in which he has writt many Amplifications'.ģ. Pietro Bembo: extensive manuscript annotations and corrections in his hand (cropped).Ģ. (Paper flaw to outer margin of bb5.)Įarly 18th-century English red morocco gilt over pasteboard, plain and ornamental rules, and gilt dentelle border on sides, gilt fleuron tools in each corner, gilt spine, all edges gilt (joints and headcap rubbed).ġ. One 3-line initial space and one 4-line initial space with guide letters. Exemplaire personnel de travail de Pietro Bembo avec ses annotations et rectifications.Ĥ°. Venise: Giovanni Antonio Nicolini da Sabbio et Frères, 1530. Relié avec - De Aetna ad Angelum Chabrielem liber. Ad Herculem Strotium de Virgilii Culice et Terentii fabulis liber (etc). The addition matches an authorial amendment that can be found on leaf B5 recto of the 1530 edition.Pietro BEMBO (1470-1547). Leaf C7 recto shows the insertion of the word “pater” above line 15 a line in the space between lines 14 and 15 signals the insertion of a two-line addition to the text supplied in manuscript in the lower margin (now very faint): “neq enim puto huius ignarum rei tamq dormientem / spectatorem sic te ex eo spectaculo redijsse”. In addition they were all included by Bembo in the second revised edition of his text published in 1530. The copy here shows authorial corrections and additions to the text: their hand matches Pietro’s in two fifteenth-century manuscripts of Horace’s Carmina originally in his father’s library and now in Cambridge libraries (MS CUL Dd.15.13 and MS King’s College 34, both also in this exhibition). The text was a fictitious dialogue between the author and his father relating to Pietro’s trip to Mount Etna in Sicily during an eruption, while he was studying Greek with Konstantinus Lascaris in Messina. Pietro’s first Latin work, De Aetna, was also the first Latin literary text printed by Aldus. A well-known humanist, Pietro collaborated with Aldus and played a pivotal role in the edition of a number of classical and humanistic Greek, Latin and vernacular texts by providing ancient or authoritative manuscript exemplars. Aldus was in close contact with the learned Venetian patrician and diplomat Bernardo Bembo (1433–1519) and his son Pietro.
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