Edizione Singolarissima del Canzoniere del Petrarca.
Trieste: Dalla Tipografia Marenigh, 1826. Item #1136 8vo. 56 pp. Illustrated with a facsimile page of incunable printing of Petrarch’s poetry. Original blue paper wrappers. Rossetti was a bibliographer of early Italian literature, a founding member of the L’Accademia Minerva in Trieste, and a book collector who left his collection, “Biblioteca Rossettiana, to the public library of that city. His Edizione Singolarissima examines in detail an unidentified edition of Petrarch’s works and includes numerous references to Dibdin, Melzi, and Meerman, and their bibliographical work on editions of Petrarch. In 1834 he published one of the earliest bibliographical studies of Petrarch that included descriptions of 1343 items. Besterman, World Bibliography of Bibliographies. 3165. OCLC cites 4 copies in America; Yale Harvard, Cornell, and the Newberry Library.
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