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BRUNI, Leonardo. Libro della guerra de Ghotti...fatto vulgare da Lodouico Petroni..., Venice, appresso Gabriel Iolito de Ferrarij, 1542

8vo. 92ff. Title within woodcut border incorporating device, slightly larger version of the device on last page, a few later sixteenth century marginalia and markings in the margins, in eighteenth century Italian vellum.

Fourth edition in Italian of Bruni's popular history of the wars between the Romans and the Goths, first written in 1442 and first printed, in Latin, in 1470. This Italian edition by Lodovico Petroni was first composed in 1456 and dedicated by him to Galeazzo Sforza, the son of Francesco. It first appeared in print in 1526. With a purchase inscription, taken from the earlier binding and pasted in, of Josephus Tridentinus.

Censimento B3817; Bongi I, pp.41-42; Adams A1556

£400

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