Beschreibung:

Colonna, Vittoria. Rime della diuina Vettoria Colonna marchesana di Pescara, di nuouo ristampate, aggiuntoui le sue stanze, e con diligenza corrette. Venice: [Niccolò Zoppino?], 1539. Bound with:
Pietro Aretino, L’Horatia di m. Pietro Aretino. Venice: Gabriele Giolito de Ferrari, 1546. Bound with:
Lodovico Dolce, Didone, tragedia di m. Lodouico Dolce. Venice: Heirs of Aldo Manuzio, 1547. Bound with:
Ercole Bentivoglio, Le satire et altre rime piacevoli del signor Hercole Bentiuoglio. Venice: Gabriele Giolito de Ferrari, 1546. Bound with:
Tre bellissimi capitoli in lode della pazzia, con alcune stanze amorose di nouo stampate. Venice: s.n., 1543
This volume most probably was one of those chosen in 1547 by the Venetian bookseller Gabriele Giolito for Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, bishop of Arras, and couriered to him in Augsburg by the imperial postmaster (see lot 5). Most books in that large shipment were bound by the “Fugger Binder,” Giolito’s preferred binder. The remainder were bound in a shop designated by Antony Hobson the “Cicero Binder” on account of the seven Aldine editions of Cicero (1541–1546) which he bound in red goatskin for Diego Hurtado de Mendoza. Hobson supposed that the order for Granvelle in 1547 was so large, that a single bindery could not fill it within the requisite time.
This binding is a new addition both to Hobson’s list of 46 bindings made by the Cicero Binder for Granvelle (1999) and to T. Kimball Brooker’s list of 189 bindings surviving from the 1547 shipment. All of the Cicero Binder’s work for Granvelle is on vernacular texts, books intended for recreation rather than study. The skins are in a variety of colors, decorated in one or the other of two styles. On this octavo, the covers are decorated in gold with a shaped central lozenge, whose curves end in fleurons. On the fore-edge is a purple label, lettered in gold.
5 works bound in one volume, 8vo (160 x 100 mm). (I) Italic type, 28 lines (in 2 stanzas) or 24 lines (in 3 stanzas). collation: A–F8: 48 leaves (F8 blank). Title within woodcut historiated border. (II) Italic type, 28 lines plus headline. collation: A–G8: 56 leaves. Ferrari's woodcut phoenix device on title-page, historiated woodcut initials, type-ornament headpieces. (III) Italic type, 30 lines plus headline. collation: A–D8 E10: 42 leaves. Woodcut Aldine anchor & dolphin device on title-page and E10v, 3-line initial spaces with guide letters. Italic types, 30 lines. (IV) Italic type, 30 lines. collation: A–C8 D4: 28 leaves (D4 blank). Ferrari's woodcut phoenix device on title-page, a larger version on D3v, historiated woodcut initials. (V) Italic types, 30 lines or 24 lines (in 3 stanzas). collation: A–B8 (-B8): 15 (of 16) leaves (lacking blank B8). Historiated woodcut initials. (Unobtrusive tiny wormhole at lower margin of final work.)
binding: Venetian dark blue goatskin (166 x 106 mm), 1547, by the Cicero Binder, for Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle (Piquard/Brooker Type C), with open frame formed by 2 fillets and multiple blind fillets, inner fillet with excedrae, small gilt fleuron at inside corners, shaped cartouche in center formed by a gilt fillet with large fleurons finials at top and bottom and smaller ones and sides and 4 inner points, title in gold, in cartouche on upper cover “RIME DE | LA PES.”, traces of 2 silk ties, edges gilt with purple label and 2-line title lettered in gilt “RIME/DI/PES.” (Spine ends chipped, extremities rubbed, lacking free endpapers.) 
provenance: Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle (1517–1586; armorial ink-stamp on verso of title-page) — possibly Charles-François de la Baume-Saint-Amour (1632–ca. 1707) — possibly Jean-Baptiste Boisot, abbé de Saint-Vincent de Besançon (1638–1694) — Charles de Brosses, comte de Tournay, baron de Montfalcon (1709–1777; armorial exlibris; not traced in his sale, Paris, 22 February 1779). acquisition: Purchased from Librairie Benoît Forgeot, Paris, 2015. 
references: (I) Edit16 14909; USTC 823531; (II) Edit16 2463; USTC 810419; Bongi, Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari, I, pp. 131–134; (III) UCLA 371; Renouard 141: 8; Edit16 17334; USTC 827065; (IV) Edit16 5340; USTC 813840; Bongi, I, pp. 135–136; (V) Edit16 50694; USTC 803058; for this and related bindings see: Piquard, “Les livres du Cardinal de Granvelle à la Bibliothèque de Besançon. Les reliures Italiennes,” in Libri 1 (1951), pp. 301–323 (nb: Piquard’s identification of four binding styles [A, B, C, and alla greca] is followed by Brooker); Brooker, “Identifying Books by Colors,” in Bibliophilies et reliures: mélanges offerts à Michel Wittock (Brussels, 2006), pp. 65–107: Appendix 4: Library of Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle. Types of Venetian Bindings, 1547 shipment. Type A, no. 4; A. Hobson, Renaissance Book Collecting (Cambridge, 1999), pp. 119–123; 252–254 (Appendix 7: Bindings by the Cicero Binder).