Il petrarca con le osseruationi di Messer Francesco Alunno bound with] Le Osservationi di M. Francesco Alunno da Ferrara Sopra Il Petrarca

Francesco Petrarca; Francesco Alunno

Venetia : Stampato per Francesco Marcolino, 1539

[Early Italian Emblem Book] 2 volumes, bound as one.  Octavo, 15 cm.  Bound in later 1/2 vellum, over marbled boards.  Leather spine labels.  Good binding and cover.  [4], 354, [18] pages + 180 leaves.   Architectural title vignette with portrait of Petrarch.  Engraved printer's device at end of first volume.  Second volume has an engraved title, with a portrait of Alunno.  

Provenance: From Professor John MacQueen's library of Scotland.  Includes related ephemera associated with Renaissance studies. "It is appropriate that Petrarch be printed in Italics, a type invented in 1501 by the famous Venetian printer Aldus Manutius was said to have adopted Petrarch's own handwriting for ... creating the new type." - Note inside front cover.  

Refs: Fiske / Fowler, 97; Ley 159-161; Brunet III, 477.