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CONDIVI, Ascanio. Vita di Michelagnolo Buonarroti. Rome: Antonio Blado, 16 July 1553.
4° (185 x 119mm). Blado's large woodcut device at end, 3 fine historiated initials, with the 2 final blanks. (Light waterstaining at the beginning, small hole in the blank foremargins of the last 5 leaves.) Contemporary limp vellum (spine worn).
FIRST EDITION, SECOND ISSUE with the two added leaves in quire L, containing an interesting passage in which Condivi mentions Michelangelo's interest in anatomy, paying tribute to Dürer and Colombo and discusses his preliminary drawings for a palace that the pope wanted to build in Rome. Gamba 1330 'Molto raro'; Steinmann & Wittkower, Michelangelo Bibliographie, 488.
4° (185 x 119mm). Blado's large woodcut device at end, 3 fine historiated initials, with the 2 final blanks. (Light waterstaining at the beginning, small hole in the blank foremargins of the last 5 leaves.) Contemporary limp vellum (spine worn).
FIRST EDITION, SECOND ISSUE with the two added leaves in quire L, containing an interesting passage in which Condivi mentions Michelangelo's interest in anatomy, paying tribute to Dürer and Colombo and discusses his preliminary drawings for a palace that the pope wanted to build in Rome. Gamba 1330 'Molto raro'; Steinmann & Wittkower, Michelangelo Bibliographie, 488.