MUZIO (Girolamo)

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MUZIO (Girolamo)
The Justinio-Politan Mutio Fight, With the Answers Chevaleresses. Lyon, Guillaume Rouillé, 1561. In-4, 458 pp. and 7 ff.n.ch.: red morocco, in the centre of the plates a large diamond-shaped fleuron with a reserved centre, spine ribbed with a small cold repeated iron, gold title, double inner fillet, lining of hazelnut morocco decorated with a large decoration with compartments and stylised foliage, gold edges on marbling (Belz-Niedrée). First edition in French, translated by Antoine Chapuis. The title page is adorned with a very beautiful woodcut frame, showing a sort of mantel flanked by two Atlanteans, welcoming a typographic mark in the center, and a cartouche with grotesque decoration bearing the title in the upper part. This frame is reproduced by Baudrier, t. IX, p. 228, which indicates that it was engraved by Pierre Vase for Guillaume Rouillé. Important treatise on duels. Initially published in Venice in 1550 under the title Il Duello, the work of Girolamo Muzio, or Mutio (1496-1576), a courtly and petrarquing writer born in Padua, contains curious and interesting details concerning the art of fighting and the duties of knights in all circumstances: the origin of the fights, the rules of the assailant & the deffendant, the demands, the choice of arms, the day of the fight, etc. Superb copy, established by the Belz-Niedrée workshop at the end of the 19th century. The remarkable gilt decoration on the lining is inspired by the complex decorations designed to adorn the most beautiful bindings of the mid-16th century. It can be compared to the decorations on two bindings made for Jean Grolier and Thomas Wotton, reproduced by Mirjam Foot in the catalogue The Henry Davis Gift (vol. III, nos. 24 and 42). (Cockle, Bibliography of Military Books, no. 879, Thimm, Complete bibliography of the Art of Fence, pp. 122-123, not listed by Vigeant or Gelli).
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