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Firenze - Varchi, Benedetto

Florentine History by Messer Benedetto Varchi. [...] With a final table of the most notable things., 1721

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334x212 mm
Cologne, press Pietro Martello, 1721. In-folio. Late 18th-century full parchment binding, with five-ribbed spine, blind-stamped frame on the covers, and gilt titles on the spine; title in the half-title framed within a beautiful full-page copperplate engraving with the coats of arms of And. Matth. Wolfgang (Andreas Matthaus Wolgang, 1660-1736), engraved frontispiece with a portrait of the author within a medallion engraved by Pfeffel, double medallion on the title page with a portrait of the author and the motto "Così quaggiù si gode", title page in red and black lettering, a double plate outside the text with a finely copper-engraved Medici family tree, numerous headpieces, large initials, and woodcut tailpieces, all of great value. Ownership indication on the title page (round blue ink stamp with coat of arms and the inscription: "ex libris Antonii de Summo"). Presence of browning and some foxing, slight marginal damp halo on a few leaves, loose first leaves, small woodworm holes on four leaves not affecting the text, damaged lower headband, slight slippage towards the outside of the central leaves, around pp. 350-400, due to loose binding.

Specialist Notes

Important work on Florentine history by Benedetto Varchi (1503-1565), historian and humanist, man of letters, erudite, member of the Florentine Academy, priest, born and died in Florence. This work was actually printed in Augsburg by Paolo Kuhzio and edited by Francesco Settimani (see Parenti, Dictionary of false, invented or supposed printing places, 56). It includes the notice from "the Printer to the readers", the "Life of Messer Benedetto Varchi, written by the Abbot Don Silvano Razzi: to the Illustrious and Reverend Lord Bernardo Medici", followed by the dedication "To his Most Illustrious and Excellent Lord, and Most Observant Master, Cosimo Medici, Second Duke of Florence, Benedetto Varchi"; then the "Preface" and, finally, preceded by a double-page plate with the "Branch of the Medici Family", begins the History ("Della Fiorentina Storia di Mess. Benedetto Varchi") divided into sixteen books; at the end is the "Table of the most notable things". The work concludes with the "Errors that occurred in printing". This copy has been purged of the episode relating to the violence used by Pier Luigi Farnese against the bishop of Fano, originally narrated on pages 639-640, but reinstated through a contemporary manuscript sheet (loose annex, after page 640).

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