Sonetti e canzoni di diversi antichi Autori Toscani in dieci libri raccolte, Florence 1527

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Sonetti e canzoni di diversi antichi Autori Toscani in dieci libri raccolte, Florence 1527
Sonetti e canzoni di diversi antichi Autori Toscani in dieci libri raccolte. Di Dante Alighieri libri quattro. Di messer Cino da Pistoia libro uno. Di Guido Cavalcanti libro uno. Di Dante da Maiano libro uno. Di fra Guittone d'Arezzo libro uno. Di diverse canzoni e sonetti senza nome d'autore libro uno. Firenze: Her. di Filippo di Giunta, 1527.

148 leaves; 8⁰
USTC 800638 (https://www.ustc.ac.uk/editions/800638)

The editio princeps (first printed edition) of most 13th- and 14th-century Italian lyric poetry. Containing 289 poems by 23 authors over 11 books, it was designed by Bardo Segni for the Giunta publishing house in Florence.
Dante’s lyric poems occupy the first four books, organised into: poems of the Vita Nuova (New Life) without any prose (I); other lyric poems, mainly in diverse meters (II); and canzoni (long lyric poems, III and IV).
The Giuntina corpus has been freed of most of the poems attributed spuriously to Dante which had been circulating. Through selection and organisation, it promoted the reading of Dante’s lyric poems as though of a systematic songbook bearing witness to the major steps of his life as a man and a poet.