Petri Gherardii Burgensis Carminum libri II. Item Roberti Titij Burgensis Carminum liber I. Ad Thomam Mermannum Coloniensem. Additi sunt, & aliorum lusus

8vo (153x100 mm). 184 pp. Collation: A-L⁸ M⁴. Medici's woodcut arms on the title page and on l. K2r. Titi's part starts with a divisional title page (Roberti Titij Burgensis ad Antonium Meliorium carminum liber primus) on l. K2. Roman, italic, and Greek types. Woodcut historiated initials. Modern cardboards. Some occasional light browning and foxing, but a good copy.

First and only edition of this collection of Latin poems by two poets both originary of Borgo San Sepolcro. The first is Pietro Gherardi, who is also known as a translator of Aristotle. His poems are addressed to many prominent figures of the time including Francesco de' Medici, Pietro da Barga, Antoine Muret (who dedicated him in return a long poem ‘Ad Petrum Gerardium'), Flaminio Nobili, and Tarquinia Molza, just to mention a few. The second poet is the philologist and humanist Roberto Titi, who was only 20 years old when he published his poems. He was involved in a fierce dispute with Scaliger and later obtained a professorship in Bologna. Titi ended his life in Pisa, where he was invited by Grand Duke Ferdinand. Among his poems there is one called Gephyromachia pisana (pp. 157-159), which is dedicated to the famous Gioco del Ponte (‘Bridge Game') of Pisa (cf. M.I. Aliverti & M. Alderigi, Il Gioco del Ponte di Pisa: memoria e ricordo di una città, Pisa, 1980, p. 142, no. 9.1). The present is one of the few editions signed by Carlo Pettinari, a printer from Bologna who worked in Florence either on his own or in partnership with the heirs of Lorenzo Torrentino.

Edit 16, CNCE20813; USTC, 832532; Adams, G-567.

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