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PETRARCA, Francesco (1304-1374). Das Glückbuch Beydes des Gutten und Bösen . Translated from Latin into German by Stephan Vigilius. Edited by Sebastian Brant Augsburg: Heinrich Steiner, 1539. 2 o (301 x 199 mm). 2 parts in one, separately titled and foliated. Collation: a-b 6 c 8; A-S 6 T 8; V 6 Xx 4; Aa-Cc 6 Dd 8 Ee-Zz 6 aa 4 bb 8 (T8 blank). Gothic type. Translator's preface in part 1, editor's verse preface in part 2. Errata page at end. Title with large woodcut of the wheel of fortune, 261 woodcut illustrations by the Petrarca-Meister, a few full-page. Historiated woodcut initials from several sets. (Lower blank portion of title cut away, some worming, occasional staining, marginal soiling, a few small marginal tears or repairs.) Contemporary German blind-stamped pigskin, tools including classical heads-in-medallion roll and a biblical roll, remains of two fore-edge clasps, vellum manuscript quire liner to first quire (rubbed, a few wormholes, old repairs to board edges and spine). Provenance : Wenzel Soczer (several inscriptions on front flyleaf dated 1557); Johann Franz Kamm (inscription); effaced early inscriptions on title, title verso and L6r, inscription at bottom of title cut away; Gilbert R. Redgrave (bookplate); Lionel H. Pries (two bookplates, one of Pries Memorial Library). Second edition in German, first edition of this translation of De remediis utriusque fortunae , a vast moral compendium in the form of a series of dialogues on prosperity and adversity. The work enjoyed great popularity in the German-speaking parts of Europe, where--like all of Petrarch's Latin works--it had first appeared in print. In this edition each dialogue is introduced by couplets in Latin and German by Johann Pinician. The marvelous woodcuts, first used in Steyner's 1532 edition (of Stahel and Spalatin's translation), had originally been commissioned ca. 1519-1520 by the Augsburg publishers Grimm and Wirsung, along with a series of cuts for a projected German Cicero, but publication of both works was repeatedly delayed. After Grimm's death the manuscripts and blocks, ready to be printed, lay for a time forgotten, until they were finally purchased "very dearly" (cf. Muther, p. 140) by Heinrich Steiner, whose Cicero appeared in 1531, followed by the Petrarch a year later. (33 of the Petrarch cuts first appeared in the Cicero.) The anonymous Master of the Petrarch was identified with Hans Burgkmair by Muther, and more recently with Hans Weiditz by Campbell Dodgson, but neither attribution has been universally accepted. The engraver is known to have worked at least in part from sketches supplied by Sebastian Brant who oversaw production of both the Petrarch and Cicero series. After Steiner's death in 1548 the Petrarch blocks were acquired by the energetic Frankfurt printer Christian Egenolff, and continued passing from one Frankfurt printer to another, appearing in numerous editions of the Trostspiegel , as the work came to be known, and in other works, for nearly a century. BM/STC German , p. 686; Fowler Pet+BG 41; Muther 887. [ Bound with :] PETRARCA, Francesco. De Rebus Memorandis. Gedenckbuch aller der Handlungen, die sich fürtreffenlich vonn Anbegind der Welt wunderbarlich begeben und zu getragen haben . Translated from Latin by Stephan Vigilius. Augsburg: Heinrich Steiner, 1541. 2 o. Collation: A 8 A-Q 6. Title woodcut of an author writing, 15 woodcut illustrations, one with inset typographic captions, woodcut initials. First edition in German, first illustrated edition. Most of the woodcuts are from the Petrarch series. Like the above edition, this edition is RARE. Fowler Pet + FG 11; Muther 1117.