CAPELLONI, Lorenzo. Ragionamenti varii...sopra essempii: con accidenti misti, seguiti, et occorsi Genoa, appresso Marc'Antonio Bellone, 1576
4to. 112ff. Small woodcut arms of Savoy on title-page and small device at end, 3 quires of preliminaries misbound at the end, a few quires browned, in contemporary limp vellum, lacks ties.
FIRST EDITION of this valuable and entertaining book which Borromeo placed in his collection of 'Novellieri' but which contains, in reality, narrative stories of people and events occurring between the mid-fifteenth century and 1566; their names are listed in one of the two indexes at the end. The events, factual and anecdotal, take place in Liguria, Lombardy, Campania and Aragon and several of them mention Turkey and the Turks. At the beginning the author, in his preface, narrates the history of Novi Ligure, his natal town.
Censimento C1083; not in Adams
£800
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