12/9/2023 0 Comments Bembo roman(2) Pietro Bembo, Epistolarum Leonis decimi pontificis maximi nomine scriptarum libri XVI (Lyon: Thibaud Payen, 1540). Bibliotheca Brookeriana (to be offered 12 October 2023, lot 92). (1) Judah Abravanel (Leone Ebreo), Dialogi di amore, composti per Leone medico, di natione hebreo, et dipoi fatto christiano (Venice: Sons of Aldo Manuzio, 1541). List of Plaquette Bindings made in the 1540s for Apollonio Filareto Sisto in Viterbo, and he died there in 1569. ![]() In 1552, Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, Pier Luigi’s son, bestowed on Filareto the Arcipretura of S. After three years’ incarceration, Filareto was released, and returned to Rome. ![]() His library evidently was left behind, as some volumes entered the Dominican monastery of S. Filareto was arrested in Piacenza on 10 September 1547 by the assassins of Pier Luigi and sent to Milan for imprisonment. The books seem to have been bound in batches at different times, in 1542–1544 in Rome, then in 1545–1547 in Northern Italy, where Filareto had travelled with his master, Pier Luigi Farnese. Hobson thought he might be one of the gem-engravers then working for Pope Paul III Anthony Hobson was uncommitted. Filareto possibly designed the device himself, or it may have been conceived by his friend and colleague in Farnese service, Claudio Tolomei, who is the probable inventor of the “Apollo and Pegasus” device employed by Giovanni Battista Grimaldi. The intaglio stamp for applying the impresa evidently belonged to Filareto and was lent to the bookseller who sold him the book and made the binding. Each is decorated by a lily tool and (on lower covers) by a clasped hands tool, these symbolizing their owner’s allegiance to the Farnese family. All three bindings in the Bibliotheca Brookeriana are from Niccolò Franzese’s shop. Although all the bindings feature the same medallion, it is generally accepted now that they were produced in three different shops: nine in Rome by Niccolò Franzese three in Rome by Marcantonio Guillery and four in Northern Italy, perhaps in Bologna, by an anonymous shop. The bindings have the owner’s name lettered in gold in an oval compartment on the lower cover: APOLLONII PHILARETI, and on the upper cover, beneath the gold-tooled name of the author or title, is his proud device: a medallion of an eagle soaring above a perilous seashore, and motto: Procul Este (Virgil, Aeneid, VI, 258). The earliest book was published in 1497 and the latest in 1542. Ten bindings cover Venetian books five, Lyonese imprints and one is on a manuscript (in an altered binding). ![]() Five of these are in private hands: three-including the present volume of some 581 letters written by Bembo in his role as secretary to Pope X-are in the Bibliotheca Brookeriana the other two are the 1535 Aldine Lactantius (last seen in the Esmerian sale, in 1972), and an empty binding (once housing the second part of the 1497 Aldine Iamblichus, last sighted in the Wittock sale, in 2004). Hobson published a list of nine that number has been increased by Nicolas Rauch, Tammaro De Marinis, Anthony Hobson, Federico Macchi, and, now, by the present catalogue, so that sixteen Filareto bindings are known at present. The appetite for Filareto’s bindings has been regularly stimulated by lists of the extant volumes, which show them to be much rarer than the “Apollo and Pegasus” bindings with which they are often compared. Nearly every collector devoted to bookbindings has at some time possessed a Filareto binding: Yemeniz, and Guyot de Villeneuve, before the turn of the century Fairfax Murray, Dunn, Goldschmidt, Barbet, Wilmerding, Moss, Burrus, Abbey, Hely-Hutchinson, Bishop, and Davis, in the first half of the last century De Marinis, Esmerian, Langlois, Schäfer, and Wittock, thereafter. Guglielmo Libri obtained three: one, offered in his sale in Paris in 1847, the first identifiable Filareto binding in an auction catalogue, allegedly stolen by Libri from a library in Montpellier, has since returned there the other two, offered in London in 1859, where they were purchased respectively by the duc d’Aumale and Felix Slade, have passed by bequest into the Musée Condé, Chantilly, and the British Library. Since they came to the attention of collectors in the mid-nineteenth century, the distinctive plaquette bindings made in the 1540s for Apollonio Filareto (ca. Placuit praeterea ejusdem autoris epistolas aliquot sanequam doctas adnectere, videlicet ad Longolium III ad Budaeum II ad Erasmum I. Epistolarum Leonis decimi pontificis maximi nomine scriptarum libri XVI.
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