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Stefano Caroti; Stefano Zamponi; Emanuele Casamassima - Lo Scrittoio Di Bartolomeo Fonzio, Umanista Fiorentino

Title: Lo Scrittoio Di Bartolomeo Fonzio, Umanista Fiorentino
Description: Milan: Edizioni il Polifilo, 1974. Folio. [202 pp.]. Very Good+. Soft Cover. Plain white stiff wraps, dust-jacket printed on gray paper and folded over the wraps. Slip Case Very Good, with minor scruff on top of spine. Pages fine. Letterpress printing. Color and B&W plates. Text in Italian. Bartolommeo Fonte (1445-1513) was an Italian humanist, poet, and translator. Fonte studied Greek and Latin in Florence, traveled to Rome, Ferrara, and Buda, and translated for the first time many key texts from antiquity. His voluminous correspondence provides significant insight into the life of the Italian humanists of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; this volume provides a full catalog of Fonte's manuscripts. Printed by Giovanni Mardersteig's Stamperia Valdonega. From the Collection of the Art Historian Peter Selz. .

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Price: US$ 100.00 Seller: Wittenborn Art Books
- Book number: 18-3658

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