Alessandro Piccolomini. ANNOTATIONI DI M. ALESSANDRO PICCOLOMINI, NEL LIBRO DELLA POETICA D'ARISTOTELE; CON LA TRADUTTIONE DEL MEDESIMO LIBRO, IN LINGUA VOLGARE. Venice: Presso Giovanni Guarisco, & Compagni, 1575. First edition. Limp vellum, yapp edges, manuscript on spine and tail edge. 4to; +4 2+8 A-Z8 2A-2C8 2D4 (quires L and K transposed); [24], 422, [2]pp. Italic type; text in Italian. Woodcut device on title page and colophon, with woodcut initials and ornaments, endpapers with upraised hand watermark. Adams P1104; USTC 848279; EDIT16 40414.

8 1/8 x 6 1/4 in.

From the Collection of Professor Roberto Severino, Washington, D.C.

Alessandro Piccolomini (Siena, 1508-1579) was a humanist and astronomer who wrote important commentaries on Aristotle's Poetics and Rhetoric. His Annotations on the Book of Aristotle on the Art of Poetry was first published in 1575, and followed his translation of 1572.

Expected discoloration and warping to vellum, some separation from textblock, wormholes, lacking ties; endpapers with insect damage, bookplate on paste-down, cracking at hinges with occasional wormhole; pages with overall light toning (several signatures with heavier toning) and scattered foxing, damp staining along head of several of the first and last gatherings, otherwise unmarked; signatures K and L bound out of order.