L' ACERBA; Ridotta a Miglior Lezione e Per La Prima Volta Interpretata Col Sussidio Di Tutte Le Opere dell' Autore e Delle Loro Fonti Dal PROF. DOTT. ACHILLE CRESPI by Cecco d'Ascoli (Francesco Stabili) - 1927

Ascoli Piceno, Italy: Casa Editrice Di Giuseppe Cesari, 1927. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Clean, tight, no names, no writing. 3/4 vellum stamped blue over blue cloth, top edge gilt, uncut, two spine bands, blue and white patterned endpapers, light bit of soil otherwise a fine copy. 2 engravings, 489pp. plus errata. Complete V volumes in one binding. Edito nel VI centenario della morte di Francesco Stabili per Iniziativa della Brigata degli Amici dell' Arte e Grippo Studiosi and so forth and so on. Cecco d'Ascoli (1257 - September 26, 1327) is the popular name of Francesco degli Stabili (sometimes given as Francesco degli Stabili Cichus), a famous Italian encyclopaedist, physician and poet. Cecco (in Latin, Cichus) is the diminutive of Francesco. He wrote this scientific-philosophical poem in the vernacular, L'acerba, which was supposed to be a scientific equivalent of Dante's Divine Comedy, but it remained unfinished. He was comdemned and burned at the stake as a heretic. This lovely commemorative volume is rare.