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Delle lettere facete et piacevoli di diversi huomini grandi et chiari, & begli ingegni. Raccolte per M. Dionigi Atanagi, libro primo. Riveduto, scelto, & corretto dal medesimo & con somma diligenza ristampato. (Bound with:) TURCHI, Francesco (1515-1599). Delle lettere facete, et piacevoli, di diversi huomini grandi, et chiari & begli ingegni. Scritte sopra diverse materie. Raccolte per M. Francesco Turchi. Libro secondo.

Delle lettere facete et piacevoli di diversi huomini grandi et chiari, & begli ingegni. Raccolte per M. Dionigi Atanagi, libro primo. Riveduto, scelto, & corretto dal medesimo & con somma diligenza ristampato. (Bound with:) TURCHI, Francesco (1515-1599). Delle lettere facete, et piacevoli, di diversi huomini grandi, et chiari & begli ingegni. Scritte sopra diverse materie. Raccolte per M. Francesco Turchi. Libro secondo.

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Delle lettere facete et piacevoli di diversi huomini grandi et chiari, & begli ingegni. Raccolte per M. Dionigi Atanagi, libro primo. Riveduto, scelto, & corretto dal medesimo & con somma diligenza ristampato. (Bound with:) TURCHI, Francesco (1515-1599). Delle lettere facete, et piacevoli, di diversi huomini grandi, et chiari & begli ingegni. Scritte sopra diverse materie. Raccolte per M. Francesco Turchi. Libro secondo.

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Two parts in one volume, 8vo (160x106 mm). [20], 438, [2]; [16], 575, [1] pp. Collation: †8 ††2 A-DD8 EE4; *8 A-NN8. Printer's device on title pages. Early 20th-century half vellum, double lettering piece on spine. Some marginal staining, small loss to the outer margin of a few leaves without loss. A very nice copy, uncut with deckle edges.

FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. Atanagi's Delle lettere facete was first published in Venice in 1561. Atanagi had planned a second book, but his work on it was interrupted with his death in 1573. The material was gathered together and published by Francesco Turchi on behalf of Aldo Manuzio two years later in 1575. Both volumes were printed together for the first time in Venice by Altobello Salicato in 1601.

Both books were put in the Parma Index of 1580, but not in those published in Rome in 1590 and 1593 (cf. J.M. Bujanda, R. Davignon, E. Stanek, M. Richter, eds., Index de Rome: 1590, 1593, 1596, avec étude des index de Parme 1580 et Munich 1582, Sherbrooke, 1994, p. 151, no. 354).

The first volume contains 183 letters grouped by authors and arranged in chronological order. Most of the letters are dated between 1507 and 1558.

"Atanagi indique les fonctions d'un grand nombre d'épistoliers et de leurs destinataires; parmi les 32 auteurs, secrétaires et ecclésiastiques, les deux étant en rapports étroits et fréquemment unis dans la même personne, sont les plus nombreux et les plus féconds. Les principaux sont le cardinal P. Giovio avec 37 lettres, puis B. Boccarini avec 31 lettres, G.B. Sanga avec 18 lettres, F. Berni avec 13 lettres et G.F. Bini avec 12 lettres, quatre sécretaires de prélats éminents. Les destinataires les plus cités sont Atanagi lui-même à qui sont envoyées 34 lettres, G.M. Mentebuona pour 27 lettres, G.F. Bini pour 25 lettres et L. Iuvenale pour 12 lettres. Les sujets sont variés, personnels ou politiques, parfois graves. La présence d'une lettre dans ce receuil peut être justifiée par son ton facétieux ou simplement familier, par une seule expression plaisante, un jeu de mots, exceptionnellement par son sujet" (J. Basso, Le genre épistolaire en langue italienne (1538-1662), Rome & Nancy, 1990, I, pp. 204-205).

The volume also contains the only sixteenth century printing of a satirical text on the Rome of Paul III by Jacopo Bonfadio (ca. 1508-1550), here entitled Al Furfante Re della della Furfantissima Furfanteria (pp. 323-336). The volume ends with two long letters addressed by Girolamo Muzio to Vittoria Farnese Della Rovere, Duchess of Urbino, in which the author, "in persona del Verno contra la State", paradoxically praises the winter against summer (cf. M.C. Figorilli, I due libri di lettere facete, et piacevoli (1561-1575), in: "'Meglio ignorante che dotto'. L'elogio paradossale in prosa nel Cinquecento", Naples, 2008, pp. 109-110).

Volume two gathers 159 letters and 6 satirical texts, including the second edition of the celebrated Formaggiata, the first book on cheese ever published.

"Ce livre, préparé pour Aldo Manuzio le Jeune d'après la dédicace, compte 61 épistoliers et contient 159 lettres numérotées, puis 4 autres encore qui accompagnent l'envoi de different écrits burlesques ou libertins: L'Oratione della ignoranza (de Doni), La Pazzia, La Formaggiata, La Sacra Corona (de Caro) et La Pelatina. Voici les principaux auteurs: A. Bonaguidi (8 l.), P. Giovio (7 l.), Bonfadio (6 l.) et D. Atanagi (5 l.) qui est aussi le principal destinataire (18 l. dont la première probablement en signe d'hommage). A.F. Doni tient une certaine place à la fine du volume avec Il Valore degli asini, L'asinesca gloria parmi le lettres encore numérotées, en plus d'écrits déjà cités. Les lettres, plus raramente datées que dans le livre I et en général plus récentes, sont groupées par auteurs, sans ordre chronologique. Ce second livre est plus disparate que le premier. Il place côte à côte des noms d'épistoliers célèbres, d'inconnus nombreux et des pseudonymes; il mêle au genre épistolaire davantage de poésies, des avertissements aux lecteurs et de long discours extraits d'ouvrages divers; il accueille le burlesque paradoxal, obscène" (J. Basso, op. cit., I. pp. 205-206).

Catalogo unico, IT\ICCU\RMLE\012784 and IT\ICCU\BA1E\001767.

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Delle lettere facete et piacevoli di diversi huomini grandi et chiari, & begli ingegni. Raccolte per M. Dionigi Atanagi, libro primo. Riveduto, scelto, & corretto dal medesimo & con somma diligenza ristampato. (Bound with:) TURCHI, Francesco (1515-1599). Delle lettere facete, et piacevoli, di diversi huomini grandi, et chiari & begli ingegni. Scritte sopra diverse materie. Raccolte per M. Francesco Turchi. Libro secondo.
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ATANAGI, Dionigi (1504-1573)
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