Bidspirit auction | [HISTORY] - Eulogy for a

[HISTORY] - Eulogy for a Scholar: Salviati’s Funeral Oration, 1589 - CAMBI Pierfrancesco (d. 1592) - CAMBI, PIERFRANCESCO - Orazione funerale... delle lodi del cavalier Lionardo Salviati Accademico fiorentino. Recitata da lui pubblicamente in Firenze nella fiorentina accademia il di 22. di Febbraio 1589. nel consolato di messer Giovanni Mazzei. Florence, Antonio Padovani, 1590. 4to (194x132 mm), 20th cent. red half morocco binding with title in gold on spine, in good condition. The Ginori-Conti and Giannalisa Feltrinelli copy. Collation: A-D4, E². 34, [2] pages. Woodcut printer's device on the title-page. Woodcut initials. First and only edition of this funeral oration, written and delivered by Pierfrancesco Cambi in 1589 at the Accademia Fiorentina, to celebrate the scholar Leonardo Salviati. This oration represents the only known work by the Florentine scholar Cambi, member of the Accademia Fiorentina and of Accademia della Crusca. BMC STC 140; Adams C-404; Edit16 8662. (1)