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4to (214x152 mm). [8], 135, [1] leaves. Collation: *4 ?4 a-z4 A-L4. With the large woodcut portrait of the author on the title page and the printer's device on last leaf verso. Contemporary limp vellum, inked title on the spine and lower edge, remnants of ties (new endpapers, small stains). On title page manuscript ownership's inscription Ballybay Library. Inner margin of the title page reinforced, small holes to the gutter of the first two leaves with no loss of text, small ink stain on the upper blank margin at the end of the volume, otherwise a very good genuine copy.FIRST COMPLETE EDITION. First published in Bologna in 1546, containing only seventy-two chapters, the Ricordi appeared in an enlarged edition in 1549 (124 chapters) also in Bologna. The present, definitive, edition containing 133 ?ricordi' was edited by Zaccaria Bellenghi, Fra Sabba's chaplain in Faenza, shortly after the latter's death. The work became very popular and between 1546 and 1613 twenty-five editions were published.In the present edition is also found for the first time the title woodcut showing Fra Sabba in his study. Ugo Rozzo (Lo studiolo nella silografia italiana, 1479-1558, Udine, 1998, pp. 90, 114), deems this frontispiece to be remarkable for the mid-sixteenth century both for its Hospitaller imagery and its display of books within the study. The woodcut is emblematic of Sabba's monastic life conducted within the Order's parameters of social utility. He presents an iconographic image of the devout humanist knight who prefers the tranquility of his Commenda to the bustle of the city (see also D. Thornton, The Scholar in his Study: Ownership and Experience in Renaissance Italy, New Haven, CT, 1997, pp. 106-114).The work consists of two series of ?avvertimenti? (advices), each closely related to Castiglione's initial idea of providing to his grandnephew Bartolomeo Righi useful hints on how to become a perfect knight Hospitaller, but its numerous printings in the sixteenth century and its breadth of scope suggest a wider target audience. The other ?ricordi', were developed into true small treatises or essays, that Castiglione expanded and augmented in every new edition. Despite not having a wide-ranging extent, nevertheless they present a considerable interest, especially when compared to the works of contemporaries on the same topics, i.e. the life of a courtier, the government of a city, the prince and the tyrant, men of arms and religion, marriage, how to decorate a house, clothes, food and drink, physical exercise, travel, etc. But included were also his life in Faenza, his political aspirations, linguistic experiments, ideas on religious reform. Geopolitical issues of the day are vigorously engaged and farcical passages replete with colloquial phrasing appear alongside passionate theological discourse expressing a strident anti-Lutheran viewpoint (cf. C. Scarpati, Per il testo dei ?Ricordi', in: ?Studi sul Cinquecento italiano?, Milano, 1982, pp. 68-82; see also D.F. Allen, The Hospitaller Castiglione's Catholic Synthesis of Warfare, Learning and Lay Piety on the Eve of the Council of Trent, in: ?The Hospitallers, the Mediterranean, and Europe: Festschrift for Anthony Luttrell?, K. Borchardt & al. eds., London, 2016, pp. 286-298).The Ricordi is also very interesting from the point of view of art history and criticism, showing Fra Sabba's antiquarian efforts for Isabella d'Este, his admiration for Dürer's prints, and the artists he had known at Rome, e.g. Gian Cristoforo Romano, Bramante, Raphael, Cristoforo Foppa, ?Il Caradosso', the San Gallo family, just to mention a few (cf. M. Collareta, Il mondi dell'arte dei ?Ricordi' di Fra Sabba, in: ?Sabba da Castiglione, 1480-1554. Dalle corti rinascimentali alls Commenda di Faenza. Atti del Covegno, Faenza, 19-20 maggio 2000?, A.R. Gentilini, ed., Florence, 2004, pp. 297-312).At the end of the volume is reprinted another work by Fra Sabba, the Consolatoria, written during his stay at Rhod. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 0000000008947
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