CORIO, Bernardino (1459-1519 ca.) - Viri clarissimi mediolanensis Patria historia. Milan: Alessandro Minuziano, 1503. Fascinating copy in richly decorated 18th-century vellum, with fine marbled edges and decorated endpaper of the first edition of the most important history of Milan and the first to be composed in the vernacular. The work tells the story from the origins of the city to the flight of Ludovico il Moro to Germany. Folio (366 x 255mm). Title within woodcut frame with the printer's device of the Legnano brothers, on the verso of A8 a full-page allegorical figure of Virtue supporting the coats of arms of Corio and Ascanio Sforza, full-page portrait of the author sitting at the desk repeated twice with two verses by Dolcino below "Bernardine tibi Insubres debere fatentur non minus ac magno Roma superba Tito", 2F3 with woodcut representing a figure holding the Corio coat of arms (occasional scattered spotting, m8 slightly shorter in the outer margin). 18th-century vellum decorated in blind, black and gold, enpapers with decorated paper and marbled edged, title in gold on brown leather label on the spine (minimal restoration in the lower corner); preserved in a modern box. Provenance: Thomas Ferrarius (some early marginal annotations and an ownership note dated 1503 at the end) - Carlo Alberto Chiesa (loose description).


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