Lo illustro poeta Cecho Dascoli: con comento nouamente trouato & nobilmente historiato: reuisto: & emendato: da multa incorrectione extirpato & da antiquo suo uestigio exemplato .

8° (197 x 140 mm). Collation: A-K⁸. 81, [1] leaves. Roman and gothic type. Title-page within woodcut candelabra border on black ground, at the centre woodcut printer's device. Two large woodcuts on fols. A5r and A8r; seventy-four woodcut vignettes. Woodcut decorated initials on black ground. Bound in antique vellum, smooth spine. A very good copy, some leaves browned, occasional soiling. A thin wormhole in the outer blank margin of some quires, without any loss. A few contemporary maniculae.

Provenance: Livio Ambrogio collection.

The didactic-allegorical poem Acerba by the poet, physician and astrologer Francesco degli Stabili (1269-1327), well known as Cecco d'Ascoli, first appeared in Brescia about 1473. Composed between 1324 and 1327 and left unfinished, the work is a compendium of medieval culture, and has been defined the 'Anti-Commedia', owing to Cecco's criticism against the philosophical and scientific views of Dante. Despite the inquisitorial condemnation of its author the Acerba was widely diffused in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.