Antonio scaino (3 Ergebnisse)

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good Indeed. The first translated edition of this historical work on tennis, originally published in 1555, with illustrations. Signed by P. A. Negretti. Limited edition of two hundred and fifty copies, of which this is number nine. Originally published in Italian in 1555. Published in English for the first time here. Signed by P. A. Negretti to the edition page. Very scarce. Illustrated throughout. A historical study of the game of tennis, as it was in the sixteenth century, with reference to the organisation of the game, rules and law of the game, scoring (including the use of "fifteen"), faults, different uses of balls, strength and dexterity of the player, tactic, and more. With some real examples of historical game play. Written by Antonio Scaino, an Italian priest and commentator on Aristotle, St. Paul, tennis, and other ball-games. Translated by W. W. Kershaw, a British specialist translator. With historical notes from P. A. Negretti, a historian specialising in sports. In the original red cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light shelf wear to the extremities. Fading to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Very Good Indeed. Not Stated (illustrator). book. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. First. FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST BOOK ON TENNIS. Venice: Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari, et fratelli; 1555. Sextodecimo in 8s (16mo; 5 9/16" x 3 11/16", 141mm x 94mm). [Full collation available; lacking the final blank V8.] With 6 double-page wood-cut illustrations. Bound in modern speckled calf by Trevor Lloyd. On the spine, five raised bands. Title gilt to chestnut morocco in the second panel, imprint gilt to deep brown morocco in the third. Gilt fillet to the edges of the boards. Marbled end-papers. All edges of the text-block glazed red. Very pale foxing throughout, mild in places. Quire Q tanned. Lacking V8 blank. Ink "407" in an old hand to the title-page (inventory number?), with an oval ink-stamp below (mostly illegible: "ET SI[M.]/ D. [D]"). Antonio Scaino (1524-1612) was born in Salò on the shore of Lake Garda in Lombardy to a noble family. After a doctorate at Padua, Scaino took holy orders as an Augustinian and entered the court at Ferrara, where the Este family had long ruled. There he struck up a friendship with the current Duke's eldest son, the future Alonso II, to whom the present work is dedicated. Ever a philosopher -- perhaps best known as one of the great Renaissance interpreters of Aristotle -- Scaino celebrates the exercise of the body and thus of the soul, suggesting that the game was described in a (lost) treatise of Timocrates the Spartan. Scarcely a page later, he claims more soundly that his is indeed the first work on the game that would come to be known as tennis. The history of tennis is the subject of a library of studies, but in brief, the cluster of palm (jeu de paume) and racquet sports emerged in the XIIc in France and blossomed throughout the monastic and noble centers of Europe. "Gioco della palla" simply means "ballgame," but Scaino is codifying a racqueted sport that had become particularly popular in the opening decades of the XVIc. Often called the sport of kings, "real tennis" -- a XXc distinction from lawn tennis -- is played in an asymmetrical indoor court, with a service end and a hazard end, as well as various architectural elements that can interact or interfere with the ball. The intimate relation between the particular court and the game played -- as well as the great privilege of its players -- meant that disputes often arose concerning rules and the general course of play. Scaino's treatise, in addition to specifying a standard set of equipment and a plan of the court, is the first to lay out a common set of rules, such that a Ferrarese duke might profitably play against a Venetian doge. All modern books of tennis stand on the shoulders of the present work, and bibliographers are unanimous in declaring its primacy and importance. The marks of ownership are too faint to interpret; the "D. D." of the ink-stamp on the title suggests a gift made ("Donum Dedit"), perhaps to an institution. Adams II, S-547; Brunet V.178; Mortimer/Harvard Italian 465; Henderson p. 176. …

Rilegato. Zustand: ottimo. prima edizione. In 4° (22,4 x 15,6). Cc. (22) + 232; 67. Impresa al frontespizio e timbro di appartenenza di antica biblioteca, parzialmente abraso. Belle le iniziali istoriate e le testate. Ottimo esemplare marginoso, con lievi bruniture della carta, rilegato in piena pergamena floscia coeva, con titolo manoscritto al dorso e al piatto anteriore. Accuratissima parafrasi della nota opera in cui Aristotele, muovendo dalla critica dello Stato ideale descritto da Platone nella Repubblica, arriva alla conclusione dell'impossibilità di abolire la proprietà privata o la famiglia. I Sei discorsi di paternità dello Scaino conducono lA. a dimostrare le proprie convinzioni filoaristoteliche. Il sacerdote e teologo salodiense Antonio Scaino (1524-1612), è più conosciuto per il volume sul gioco della palla, dedicato al Duca di Ferrara, pubblicato qualche anno prima. This is a paraphrasys and translation of the work on Politics from Aristoteles, made by a literate from Salò (Brescia), also well known for his treatise on the football game. A very nice and fresh copy in contemporary limp vellum. Title manuscript on spine and on front cover. ADAMS, A-1926. ASCARELLI, p. 255. BM-STC Italian, p. 53. ICCU/EDIT16, n. 33948.…