Discorso letto alla Reale Accademia Fiorentina…; added title-page : Congettura che una lettera creduta di Baldessar Castiglione sia di Raffaello d’Urbino

by Daniele Francesconi

$350 · Offered by Jonathan A. Hill Bookseller · No longer available

First edition

1 p.l., 118 pp. 8vo 215 x 150 mm. , cont. blue semi-stiff paper wrappers spine a bit worn . From the added title-page : Firenze: Brazzini, 1799. First edition; a wide-margined copy of Francesconi’s important study in which he attributes the authorship of a famous letter, apparently printed here for the first time, to Raphael. The respected Renaissance scholar John Shearman writes: “The case for Raphael’s authorship still rests chiefly upon the

• Binding: Wrappers

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