Lettere [...] Al serenis.mo D. Federigo Ubaldo Feltrio della Rovere, Principe d'Urbino

8vo. (16), 312 pp. ?8, A-S8, T12. With the printer's device on the title-page. Contemporary limp vellum, marbled edges.
Catalogo unico, IT\ICCU\VEAE\003671; Quondam, p. 308.
 
FIRST EDITION of Giacomo Pergamini's letters, which appeared posthumously and were dedicated by the author's nephew Orazio Negri to Federico Ubaldo della Rovere, Prince of Urbino (Fossombrone, April 21, 1618).
The collection contains 345 letters, which are all undated except for a final section of 42 written by Pergamini on account of Scipione Gonzaga. They are dated from Rome between December 21, 1587 and January 9, 1592. Two other letters have a date, one to Bartolomeo Zucchi is dated Rome, September 12, 1597 and a letter by Giulio Mazzarini, the only one addressed to Pergamini, is dated Bologna, February 29, 1606.
As usual in late Renaissance letter collections, which were considered more as a model for letter-writing, than as documents of historical interest, a thematic index groups the letters into 13 topics: Raccomandatione (recommendation); Congratulatione (congratulation); Condoglienza e Consolatione (condolence and comfort); Complimenti misti (various compliments); Lamento (lamentation); Lode (praise); Piacevolezza (liking); Ragguagli e Negotii (commitments); Ringratiamento (thanks); Discorso (speech); Visita (visit); Scherzo (joke); Scusa (apology).
Among the recipients, many of which are dukes and bishops, stand out the names of Flaminio Nobili (1), Annibal Caro (2), Antonio Giganti (4), Bartolomeo Zucchi (8), Silvio Antoniano (3), Giovanni Francesco Peranda (4), Torquato Tasso (11), Francesco Panigarola (1), Diomede Borghesi (4), Lelio Torelli (1), and Giovanni Battista Guarini (2).
 
Ardinghelli, Luigi, Bishop of Fossombrone (p. 1)
id. (p. 2)
Della Rovere, Girolamo, Archbishop of Turin (p. 2)
Vigerio [Della Rovere, Urbano], Bishop of Senigallia (p. 3)
Savelli, [Mariano], Bishop of Bubbio (p. 4)
Torcella, [?], Bishop of Risaccio (p. 4)
Nobili, Flaminio (p. 5)
id. (p. 6)
Paci, Pompeo (p. 7)
id. (p. 7)
Guarnelli, [Alessandro] (p. 8)
Caro, Annibale (p. 8)
id. (p. 9)
id. (p. 10)
id. (p. 10)
Brunetti abate (p. 11)
id. (p. 11)
Giganti, Antonio (p. 12)
id. (p. 12)
id. (p. 13)
Zucchi, Bartolomeo (p. 13)
Visconti, Gasparo (p. 14)
Ferrari, Andrea (p. 15)
id. (p. 15)
Riccardi, Pietro (p. 16)
Taulini, Fulvio (p. 17)
Gallo, Antonio (p. 18)
id. (p. 19)
Ricci, Benedetto (p. 19)
Contini, Nicola (p. 20)
Zucchi, Bartolomeo (p. 21)
Cartari, Orazio (p. 21)
Stella Monsignor (p. 22)
Albergati, Fabio (p. 23)
Gonzaga, Francesco, Bishop of Mantua (p. 24)
Costantini, Antonio (p. 25)
Montano, Marco (p. 26)
Primicilio, Guido (p. 26)
Boccamazza, Pietro (p. 27)
Castelli, Carlo (p. 27)
Gualtieri, Giovanni (p. 28)
Peruzzi, Camillo (p. 29)
id. (p. 29)
Filonardi, Marcello (p. 30)
Signor N. (p. 30)
Antoniano, Silvio (p. 31)
Tarugi, [Sallustio] (p. 32)
[Torres, Ludovico de], Archbishop of Monreale (p. 33)
Sorbolongo, Michelangelo (p. 34)
id. (p. 34)
Mondini, [Francesco], Governor of Sabina (p. 35)
Signor N. (p. 35)
id. (p. 36)
id. (p. 37)
Gonzaga, Fabio, Governor of Monferrato (p. 37)
Leonardi, Orazio (p. 38)
Gonzaga, Pirro (p. 39)
Midelburgo, Paolo, Preposto of Fossombrone (p. 40)
Montano, Baldassarre (p. 41)
Colonna, Marco Antonio, Viceré of Sicily on the account of the Countess N. (p. 41)
Cartari, Orazio (p. 42)
Nanni, Antonio (p. 43)
Maffetti, Ventura, Governor of Benevento (p. 44)
id. (p. 44)
Usimbaldi, Pietro (p. 45)
Martini, Virgilio (p. 45)
Lionelli, Giulio (p. 46)
Dell'Armi, Francesco (p. 47)
Albertini, Cesare (p. 47)
id. (p. 48)
Gonzaga, Francesco, Bishop of Mantua (p. 49)
Signor N. (p. 50)
De Rossi, Ortensio (p. 50)
Bandelli, Tommaso (p. 51)
Vinta Cavalier (p. 51)
Nobili, Giovanni Battista (p. 52)
Maffetti, Ventura (p. 53)
Signor N. (p. 53)
Filonardi, Flaminio (p. 54)
Tacchini, Giovanni Battista (p. 55)
id. (p. 55)
Guarnelli, [Alessandro] (p. 56)
Caro, Annibale (p. 56)
Cartari, Orazio (p. 57)
Albergati, Fabio (p. 58)
Peranda, Giovanni Francesco (p. 58)
Signor N. (p.