ALBICANTE, Giovanni Alberto. Trattato del' intrar in Milano, di Carlo V . Milan: Andrea Calvo, 1541. 4°. Woodcut Imperial arms on title, 4 full-page woodcuts of triumphal arches, italic type. (Several expert paper repairs.) Olive morocco with gilt Essling supralibros on both covers, Essling monogram in spine compartments, marbled endpapers, gilt turn-ins, edges marbled and gilt, by Lortic fils. Provenance : Victor Massena, Prince d'Essling (binding). The first printed account of Charles V's entry into Milan at the invitation of the city's Governor, Marquise del Vasto. Written in verse, it was printed in very few copies with each one having a different motto printed at the foot of the first page. The primary noble families of Milan are briefly discussed by Albicante, and each copy was presumably offered to the family whose motto appears there. The Feltrinelli copy has the motto: "Nil mortalibus arduum sed famam extendere factis. Hoc virtutis opus". Albicante informs us that Giulio Romano (named on B4r) designed a route of several triumphal arches and street decoration beginning outside Porta Romana and proceeding to the Duomo. Appropriate inscriptions and verses were written by, among others, Bonaventura Castiglione and Renato Trivulzio. Romano's involvement in the project is confirmed by the letters of the Governor to Cardinal Ercole in Mantua requesting the artist's presence in Milan. The iconography used in his design focused on the golden era of the Roman empire to exalt Charles V: Roman gods and heroes glorifying the Hapsburg line. One of the woodcuts in the Trattato was crucial in the identification of two fragments of Romano's drawings, now in the Louvre, as the arch outside Porta Romana. RARE. Graesse I, 57; Sander 203; not in Berlin Kat., Cicognara, Ruggeri, Vinet.
ALBICANTE, Giovanni Alberto. Trattato del' intrar in Milano, di Carlo V . Milan: Andrea Calvo, 1541. 4°. Woodcut Imperial arms on title, 4 full-page woodcuts of triumphal arches, italic type. (Several expert paper repairs.) Olive morocco with gilt Essling supralibros on both covers, Essling monogram in spine compartments, marbled endpapers, gilt turn-ins, edges marbled and gilt, by Lortic fils. Provenance : Victor Massena, Prince d'Essling (binding). The first printed account of Charles V's entry into Milan at the invitation of the city's Governor, Marquise del Vasto. Written in verse, it was printed in very few copies with each one having a different motto printed at the foot of the first page. The primary noble families of Milan are briefly discussed by Albicante, and each copy was presumably offered to the family whose motto appears there. The Feltrinelli copy has the motto: "Nil mortalibus arduum sed famam extendere factis. Hoc virtutis opus". Albicante informs us that Giulio Romano (named on B4r) designed a route of several triumphal arches and street decoration beginning outside Porta Romana and proceeding to the Duomo. Appropriate inscriptions and verses were written by, among others, Bonaventura Castiglione and Renato Trivulzio. Romano's involvement in the project is confirmed by the letters of the Governor to Cardinal Ercole in Mantua requesting the artist's presence in Milan. The iconography used in his design focused on the golden era of the Roman empire to exalt Charles V: Roman gods and heroes glorifying the Hapsburg line. One of the woodcuts in the Trattato was crucial in the identification of two fragments of Romano's drawings, now in the Louvre, as the arch outside Porta Romana. RARE. Graesse I, 57; Sander 203; not in Berlin Kat., Cicognara, Ruggeri, Vinet.
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