LA HISTORIA D'ITALIA
In Venetia: Appresso Nicolo Beuilacqua, 1565. Large Octavo, [24], 470, [2] leaves; VG; bound in three quarter calf, marbled paper covered boards, label to spine with gilt titling, newly rebacked with spine and boards preserved, rubbing to boards and spine; text block red; title page with two small pieces cut out, presumably where names were written, two other names written, one dated 1716; title page and colophon with vignette; first 30 leaves have a tide-mark to the top half of the page; small chip missing to lower fore corner of first two leaves; shelved case 3.
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NOTES
Guicciardini is best known as the author of the Storia d'Italia (History of Italy), which provides a detailed account of politics in the Italian Peninsula between 1490 and 1534. Guicciardini paved the way for a new style in historiography with his use of government sources to support arguments and the realistic analysis of the people and events of his time. It was not until 1561 that the first sixteen of the twenty books of his History of Italy were published. [wikipedia] This edition includes only those first sixteen books.;