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[History, Renaissance] Giovio, I dodici Visconti, 1549
[History, Renaissance] Giovio, I dodici Visconti, 1549
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FIRST EDITION IN ITALIAN LANGUAGE OF VISCONTI'S LIVES
CONTAINING AN EARLY WOODCUT ON BOWLING


Giovio, Paolo. Le vite de i dodici Visconti prencipi di Milano, di monsignor Paolo Giouio vescouo di Nocera, tradotte per m. Lodouico Domenichi. Venice: Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari, 1549.

8vo, contemporary limp vellum, ff. [120].
Fine woodcut headletters, one of them (the G as “gioco” = game) representing two men playing bowling: an early printed illustration showing this sport.

First edition in Italian language of Visconti’s Lives, translated by Domenichi. The original edition of these Lives of the renowned Renaissance Princes of Milan, written in Latin, was published the same year in Paris.

References: Bongi, Annali di Gabriel Giolito, II, 57. Not in Adams, who quotes the 1558 Giolito edition. Cnce, Censimento, 21168.

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[History, Renaissance] Giovio, I dodici Visconti, 1549

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