ALBERTI, Leon Battista (1404-72). [Momus]. De principe . Rome: Etienne Guillery, November 1520. 2° (193 x 208 mm). Collation: + 4 A-K 6 L 8 . 71 leaves (of 72, without the final blank). Roman type. Woodcut of a menorah with Hebrew inscription on title and at end (L7v). Initial spaces. (Minor worming, mainly affecting last few leaves.) Modern paper wrappers. Second edition of Alberti's allegorical satire of princely rule and of the vanity of courtiers and mankind in general. Alberti's story of the rebel god Momo who wreaks havoc among gods and mortals was the source of endless speculation among the author's contemporaries. The indecisive and incompetent Jove was often identified with a succession of actual rulers, among them the humanist Pope Eugenius IV, whose reign (1431-47) ended during the period when Alberti is thought to have written this allegory. A leading figure of the Florentine Renaissance, Alberti is often described as the epitome of the Renaissance man and a precursor of Leonardo da Vinci architect, sculptor, writer, poet, painter, musician, mathematician, inventor and athlete, he excelled in all that he undertook. Although his major works were divided equally between Latin and the vernacular, Alberti was one of the most vigorous defenders of the use of the vernacular in literature. This apparently unauthorized edition appeared soon after the first edition, printed in Rome by Jacobo Mazzochi earlier the same year, with a papal privilege dated 12 August 1520. Both editions are quite rare. Etienne Guillery, a native of Lunéville in Lorraine, settled in Rome, where his name appears as the publisher of a work printed by Johann Besicken in 1506. When the latter died during the following year Guillery took over his press and material and adopted his device. Much of Guillery's output, of which the last dated work is from 1524, is unsigned. His editions include "some scientific works, a few books in Italian and one in Spanish, and a Hebrew grammar [as well as] the usual Roman publications--bulls, court orations, official papal collections, and pasquinades" (Norton, Italian Printers , p. 100). The menorah woodcut that appears in the present edition may have been cut for the Hebrew grammar. Brunet I, 133 (citing this edition as the first).
ALBERTI, Leon Battista (1404-72). [Momus]. De principe . Rome: Etienne Guillery, November 1520. 2° (193 x 208 mm). Collation: + 4 A-K 6 L 8 . 71 leaves (of 72, without the final blank). Roman type. Woodcut of a menorah with Hebrew inscription on title and at end (L7v). Initial spaces. (Minor worming, mainly affecting last few leaves.) Modern paper wrappers. Second edition of Alberti's allegorical satire of princely rule and of the vanity of courtiers and mankind in general. Alberti's story of the rebel god Momo who wreaks havoc among gods and mortals was the source of endless speculation among the author's contemporaries. The indecisive and incompetent Jove was often identified with a succession of actual rulers, among them the humanist Pope Eugenius IV, whose reign (1431-47) ended during the period when Alberti is thought to have written this allegory. A leading figure of the Florentine Renaissance, Alberti is often described as the epitome of the Renaissance man and a precursor of Leonardo da Vinci architect, sculptor, writer, poet, painter, musician, mathematician, inventor and athlete, he excelled in all that he undertook. Although his major works were divided equally between Latin and the vernacular, Alberti was one of the most vigorous defenders of the use of the vernacular in literature. This apparently unauthorized edition appeared soon after the first edition, printed in Rome by Jacobo Mazzochi earlier the same year, with a papal privilege dated 12 August 1520. Both editions are quite rare. Etienne Guillery, a native of Lunéville in Lorraine, settled in Rome, where his name appears as the publisher of a work printed by Johann Besicken in 1506. When the latter died during the following year Guillery took over his press and material and adopted his device. Much of Guillery's output, of which the last dated work is from 1524, is unsigned. His editions include "some scientific works, a few books in Italian and one in Spanish, and a Hebrew grammar [as well as] the usual Roman publications--bulls, court orations, official papal collections, and pasquinades" (Norton, Italian Printers , p. 100). The menorah woodcut that appears in the present edition may have been cut for the Hebrew grammar. Brunet I, 133 (citing this edition as the first).
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