Francesco Petrarca; Giovanni Andrea Gesualdo. IL PETRARCHA CON L'ESPOSITIONE DI M. GIO. ANDREA GESUALDO. NUOUAMENTE RISTAMPATO, E CON SOMMA DILIGENZA CORRETTO, ET ORNATO DI FIGURE. Venice: Appresso Alessandro Griffio, 1581 [colophon 1582]. Early limp parchment, manuscript on spine. 4to; *-2*8 3*12 A-3F8 (3F8 blank); ff. [28], 413 (i.e. 415), [1] (several pages mis-nnumbered). Italic type; text in Italian. Title with device and border; with woodcut initials, head-pieces, and ornaments; (6) illustrations.
Adams P833; Edit16 47372; USTC 847902.

8 x 6 3/8 in.

From the Collection of Professor Roberto Severino, Washington, D.C.

The last edition with Gesualdo's commentary, it includes the life of Petrarch, sonnets, and Trionfi at the end with illustrations.

Parchment with discoloration, lacking ties, edgewear and loss to one corner; spine with clear manuscript, tears, loss at tail, headband loose, wormholes mostly at joints; upper board with partial separation, wormholes at hinges, separation from textblock; bookplate on paste-down, endpapers with fraying, manuscript, restoration; damp staining at margins throughout; pages toned with occasional foxing, frayed edge, marginalia, small mark or stain, small corner or edge loss not impacting text, or wormhole; later coloring to many initials, some pages printed on thicker paper, D4v with repair. Fragile yet complete.