PETRARCA, Francesco (1304-1374). [Opera Latina.]Librorum Francisci Petrarche impressorum annotatio. Venice: Simon Bevilaqua, 15 July 1503. Folio (296 x 204 mm). 494 leaves. Woodcut architectural border on A1. (Final leaf with tears repaired verso.) Modern calf. Provenance: Bibliotheca Numophylacii Regis Saxoniae (bookplate). Third edition of the Latin works of Petrarch, without the 30-leaf "Bucolicum carmen" at end. Petrarca, considered to be the "first humanist" established "the vogue and ideology of classical antiquity and humanistic studies... In this sense he was 'the founder of the Renaissance'" [Wedeck & Schweitzer, Dictionary of the Renaissance.] Adams P-774. Property from the Collection of Edward A. Quattrocchi