BALDI, Accursio (detto il Sansovino)
Fermo, Sertorio de’Monti, 1590
In 8vo, pp. 51, (1); on title page cardinal arms, woodcut inred an black ink, the text is framed in a woodcut bordureand typographic woodcut ornaments.On title page an owner’s manuscript note: “Ex libris Jo:Francisci Lancellotti …1764”; Giovanni Francesco Lancellottiwas born in Staffolo, near Ancona, in 1721 (dead1788), he was a scholar in antiquities and history of his nativeland, the Marche, but “the main part of his work wasabout the idea of a Picenum library, a bio-bibliographic writers’list, published post-mortem, that was suggested byPompeo Compagnoni, Osimo and Cingoli bishop, who washis protector (DBI, s.v.)
A dedication of Accursio Baldi to Cardinal Pinelli. Bound incontemporary boards.
A rare original edition of this sonnets’collection in praise ofthe bronze monument of Accursio Baldi, alias Sansovino,built in the same 1590 on the Palazzo dei Priori frontispiece,in Fermo. The palace was begun to be built during the Middle-age (1296) and was completed with the statue that Fermo dedicated to Sisto V pope, city bishop from 1570 to1577. Once pope he made Fermo an archiepiscopal abode,giving privileges to the University.
Between the authors of poems, Raffaello Gualterotti, theGiustiniani knight, Torquato Tasso.Sansovino (1570-1607) was a goldsmith, sculptor and engraver.In EDIT 16, two copies are classified: Biblioteca comunaleForteguerriana – Pistoia and Biblioteca dell’Accademia nazionaledei Lincei e Corsiniana - Roma. No copies in OCLC.A copy at Fondation Barbier-Muller, Genève.
