GIORDANO, Fabio. In Ferdinandi Hispaniarum principis natalem vranie. Naples, apud Iosephum Cacchium, 1572.
4to. 11ff. (of 12, lacks the final blank). Woodcut royal arms on title-page, fore-margin of A2 shaved with loss of seven letters, last three leaves browned, in modern quarter vellum.
A poem in Latin hexameters celebrating the birth of Ferdinand, son of Philip II, who died in infancy. Fabio Giordano (born 1539 or 1540) was something of a polymath, being well-versed in Latin and Greek, having an excellent knowledge of plants and medicinal herbs, achieving success in law (becoming a fine orator), poetry and antiquity and also an expert transcriber of lombard texts.
Manzi, Annali di Giuseppe Cacchi, 35; not in BMC or Adams; NUC locates only the copy at the Folger Library
£200
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