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Beautiful edition of "I Marmi" printed by Bertoni. In this refined combination, each part of the work is dedicated to a different personality, in the form of dialogues with a literary and moral theme, on a wide range of topics, including contemporary economics, the press, literature and history .
CONTENTS
Unconventional work by Doni, based on the imaginary dialogues between numerous historical and fictional figures who converse and discuss on the marble steps of the Florence Cathedral.
Anton Francesco Doni (Florence, 1513 - Monselice, 1574) was an Italian scholar, editor and translator.
In 1552 he published I mondi, a novel inspired by Tommaso Moro's Utopia (1516) which Doni himself had published in Venice in 1548 in the translation from the Latin by Ortensio Lando. The Worlds of Doni is considered one of the Renaissance utopian works forerunners of Italian fantasy-science fiction literature.
Endowed with a polemical character, he entered into violent disputes with Domenichi and Aretino, previously his close friends. In the lagoon city he wrote most of his works. In 1555 he went to Pesaro in the hope of obtaining a job with Duke Guidobaldo II della Rovere. The employment vanished due to the quarrels of Pietro Aretino to which Doni replied with an infamous pamphlet in which, among other things, he predicted Aretino's death within the year, a prophecy that came true. In 1564 he again abandoned Venice and, after brief stays in Ancona and Ferrara, he retired with his son to Monselice, where he lived until his death.
CONDITION REPORT
Rigid parchment with brown label and gilt title. Wide margins. A4 ?4 A-G8 H10; a-e8; Aa-Kk8, cc. [8] 66; 40; 50; 79 [1 white]. Typographic brands on each of the four title pages, engraved drop caps, friezes, wide uncut margins. Wood engravings see Graesse, infra. 30 in the first part, 14 in the second part, and 30 in the third and fourth part. Numbering errors in the fourth part.
FULL TITLES & AUTHORS
The Marbles of the Doni Academico Peregrino, that is, reasoning introduced to be made by various conditions of men, in places of honest pleasure in Florence. Filled with Discourses in various Sciences, & Disciplines. Witty Mottoes, Miscellaneous Stories, Ancient, & Modern Prouerbijs, Moral Sentences, Accidents, & Moral Nouellettes. Divided into Four Books. A joyful work for people of every state, for the correction of customs, & for every profection of men. Dedicated to the Most Clarified Signor Giovanni Vendramino.
In Venice, near Gio. Battista Bertoni, M.DC.IX. bookshop to Pellegrino (1609).
Doni, Antonfrancesco [1513-1574].
REFERENCES
Bibl. Nat. Sagarriga Visconti Volpi, Bari; Bibl. Nat. Centr., Florence; Bibl. Palazzo Sormani, Milan; Bibl. Nat. Univ., Turin; Bibl. com. sperelliana, Gubbio; Bibl. com. Carlo Negroni, Novara; Bibl. civ. centre, Turin; Bibl. civ. Bertoliana, Vicenza; Bibl. Luigi Firpo, Turin; Bibl. Nat. Center Vittorio Emanuele II, Rome; Cambridge University; Warwick University; Manchester University; National Art Library Victoria & Albert Museum; Österreichische Nationalbibliothek Wien; Universitätsbibliothek Basel; Niedersächsische Staats und Universitätsbibliothek, Göttingen; Universitäts und Landesbibliothek Sachsen Anhalt, Halle; University, Hamburg; Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek, Weimar; Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel; Landesbibliothek, Oldenburg; Staatsbibliothek Berlin; Universiteit, Leiden; Universiteit Utrecht; Russian State Library; Library of Congress; Stanford University Library; University of California, Berkeley; University of California, Bancroft; UCLA Library, Los Angeles; University of Texas, Austin Harry Ransom; University of Kansas, Lawrence; Getty Research Library, Los Angeles; University of Illinois; University of Cincinnati; Penn State University Park; Columbia University Library; Amherst College; Yale University; Boston Athenaeum; Harvard University; Glasgow University Library; National Taiwan University, Taipei;
Bibliography: Brunet II 813; Graesse II 424; Bruni-Evans 1932.
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