Pier Francesco Giambullari

Lezzioni di M. Pierfrancesco Giambullari, lette nella Accademia Fiorentina.

Florence, [Lorenzo Torrentino], 1551.

8° (167 x 109 mm). Collation: A-K8. Complete with fol. K8 blank. 157, [3] pages. Roman and italic type. On the title-page woodcut printer's device. On fol. A1v full-page woodcut medallion portrait of Giambullari. Woodcut decorated initials. Bound in antique limp vellum. Title inked on the lower edge. A very fine copy, printed on strong paper. A few finger-marks.

Provenance: Giovanni Gherardo Grillenzoni (sixteenth-century ownership inscription on the recto of the last leaf, ‘Gio. Gherardo Grillenzoni'); Livio Ambrogio collection.



Complete edition of the four Dante lectures held between 1541 and 1548 by Pier Francesco Giambullari (1495-1555), a leading member of the Florentine Accademia. The first two lectures had already been published in 1547, in the collection Lettioni d'Academici fiorentini sopra Dante printed by Anton Francesco Doni.