POLITIC THEORIES IN THE RENAISSANCE

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Guicciardini, Francesco - Lottini, Giovanni Francesco - Sansovino, Francesco. Propositioni, overo considerationi in materia di cose di Stato, sotto titolo di avvertimenti, avvedimenti civili et concetti politici di M. Francesco Guicciardini, M. Gio. Francesco Lottini, M. Francesco Sansovini. Di nuovo posti insieme, ampliati, et corretti, a commodo, et beneficio de gli studiosi. Nelle quali si contengono, leggi, regole, precetti, & sentenze molto utili a coloro che maneggiano, cosi i principati & le repubbliche, come ogni altra sorte di governo. In Vinegia (Venice): Presso Altobello Salicato, alla libraria della Fortezza, 1588.

8vo (220x160 mm); XX century half green morocco with green percaline at boards, guilted title at five raised bands spine; modern marbled flyleaves; (8), 156 leaves; woodcut device at title-page, xylographic head-pieces, historiated woodcut initials and ornaments; xylographic Guicciardini's portrait in a figurated oval frame at front of the beginning of his Avvertimenti politici. Text in Italian, printed in italics.

An interesting collection of three Guicciardini's political treaties, in its second edition (a reprint of the original, dated 1583).

The volume contains the dedicacy to Sir William Parry (All'Illustre Signore, il Sig. Guglielmo Parry, nobile britanno), made in Venice on the 15th of April, 1583, by Francesco Sansovino; following on, the table of contents, then the Avvertimenti politici by Guicciardini, the Avvedimenti civili by Lottini and the Concetti politici by Sansovino.

Francesco Guicciardini (1483–1540) was an Italian historian and statesman. A friend and critic of Niccolò Machiavelli, he is considered one of the major political writers of the Italian Renaissance. He distinguished himself as a diplomatic advisor both for the Papacy and for the Florentine Republic and the the Medici family.

Francesco Tatti da Sansovino (1521–1586) was a versatile Italian scholar and man of letters, also known as a publisher. He was born in Rome, the son of Jacopo Sansovino, but soon moved to Venice then studied law at Padua and Bologna. He is known for his 1581 work Venetia citta nobilissima et singolare, Descritta in XIIII. Libri, known briefly as Venezia Descritta. He was also a literary critic, writing in particular on Dante and Boccaccio. He is also known with his pseudonyms, Anselmo Guisconi and Giovanni Tatti.

Giovanni Francesco (Giovanfrancesco) Lottini (1512-1572 ) was an Italian politician, writer and Catholic Bishop; he was also secretary of Cosimo de Medici, and at least of two Popes.

References: IT\ICCU\LIAE\000616. CNCE, 22331. OCLC, 69109919, 601012710 and 504726467 (UK, Netherlands, Switzerland). No copy of this edition in USA.

The last ten leaves a bit soiled at the inner upper corner; a very little wormhole at title-page not affecting the text. Good copy.