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BARGAGLI, Scipione Rolo, ouero cento imprese de gl’illustri Sigri huomini d’arme sanesi, militanti sotto’l reale, e felicissimo stendardo del Serenessimo Ferdinando de’Medici. Bologna Gio. Rossi 1591

4to. 52ff. (including the final errata leaf). Numerous woodcut initials, title-page lightly waterstained, in eighteenth century marbled wrappers, a little rubbed.

FIRST EDITION of this unillustrated description of the devices of a hundred and four Sienese knights in the service of Ferdinand of Tuscany’s army. The list naturally includes the cream of Sienese society listing members of the families of, inter alios, Bulgarini, Piccolomini, Chigi, Petrucci and Tolomei. The author (1540-1612) was one of three distinguished brothers and was the author of several works on Sienese courtly entertainments, a subject also covered by his brother Girolamo. He was a member of the Accademia degli Intronati under the name of Schietto.Censimento CNCE 29396; Praz p.267; Landwehr 143; not in Adams; RLIN locates the copy at the University of Michigan.

£650

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