FERRERI, Zaccaria Ad Venetos…de eorū dominio breui diruendo. Et vt ad cor reuertantur. Elegia. Venice 1508
4to. 2ff. Gothic letter, inner margins skilfully repaired, loose in sixteenth century limp vellum.
FIRST EDITION of this admonitory poem addressed to the Venetians. Since the demise of Cesare Borgia’s dominions in the Romagna Venice had shown herself to be extraordinarily rapacious in her conquests on the Italian mainland and her unpopularity was such that within a month of the probable printing of this poem the League of Cambrai would be formed against her, culminating in the disasatrous Battle of Agnadello in May 1509 when, for a while, Venice was pushed back to her Lagoon. Another edition was printed about the same time at Leipzig and another, probably at Milan, in c.1510, most likely for triumphal reasons. Zaccaria Ferreri (1479-1524), Bishop of Guardialfera and Governor of Faenza, attended the Council of Pisa in 1511 where he agitated strongly against the ambitions of Julius II. For this he was rewarded by Leo X who appointed him to his bishopric and his governorship and made him apostolic nuncio to Hungary. In the year after his death Arrighi printed a collection of his sacred poetry.Censimento CNCE 40988 (2 copies); Cicogna 1897; not in BMC or Adams; RLIN locates only the copy at Harvard.
£600
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