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PICO DELLA MIRANDOLA, Giovanni Francesco (1470-1533, Lord of Mirandola, Count of Concordia). Liber de imaginatione. Venice: Aldus Manutius, April 1501.
Super-chancery 4° (203 x 142mm). Collation: *4 (1r title, 1v-2r Aldo's dedication to Alberto Pio, 2v-4v Pico's dedication to Emperor Maximilian I); A-D8 E4 (text, incipit: Scripturis nobis de Imaginatione, E3v register and colophon, E4 blank). 39 (of 40, without final blank) leaves. Roman type 115mm (lower case of Griffo's 2:114 with new majuscules). 22 lines. Initial space with guide-letter. (Small and neat repairs in margins of first two leaves, few scattered light stains.) 16th-century calf tooled in blind (rebacked and expertly restored, lightly rubbed). Provenance: Livio Ambrogio (bookplate).
A RARE FIRST EDITION. In his De imaginatione Pico della Mirandola argues that men are not rational animals but are slaves of their own consciousness. Under the impulse of their imagination they think and act and this can often be the cause of false judgments. Aldus, who was closely connected to Giovanni Pico the elder and Alberto Pio, executed the work as the typographical twin to Bembo's De aetna of five years earlier. The present copy has Aldus' preface to Alberto Pio and that of the author to Emperor Maximilian (which are both often lacking). Ahmanson-Murphy 33; Dionisotti & Orlandi XXVIII; Isaac 12762; Laurenziana 44; Sansoviniana 42; Renouard Alde, 32:11.
Super-chancery 4° (203 x 142mm). Collation: *4 (1r title, 1v-2r Aldo's dedication to Alberto Pio, 2v-4v Pico's dedication to Emperor Maximilian I); A-D8 E4 (text, incipit: Scripturis nobis de Imaginatione, E3v register and colophon, E4 blank). 39 (of 40, without final blank) leaves. Roman type 115mm (lower case of Griffo's 2:114 with new majuscules). 22 lines. Initial space with guide-letter. (Small and neat repairs in margins of first two leaves, few scattered light stains.) 16th-century calf tooled in blind (rebacked and expertly restored, lightly rubbed). Provenance: Livio Ambrogio (bookplate).
A RARE FIRST EDITION. In his De imaginatione Pico della Mirandola argues that men are not rational animals but are slaves of their own consciousness. Under the impulse of their imagination they think and act and this can often be the cause of false judgments. Aldus, who was closely connected to Giovanni Pico the elder and Alberto Pio, executed the work as the typographical twin to Bembo's De aetna of five years earlier. The present copy has Aldus' preface to Alberto Pio and that of the author to Emperor Maximilian (which are both often lacking). Ahmanson-Murphy 33; Dionisotti & Orlandi XXVIII; Isaac 12762; Laurenziana 44; Sansoviniana 42; Renouard Alde, 32:11.
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