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Florence, Gaetano Cambiagi, 1782-83. 4°. Large copper-engraved coat of arms on the title pages, a portrait of Machiavelli on the frontispiece of vol. 1, 1 engraved and folded plate on vol. 2, 1 folded plate with a facsimile on vol. 4, some light foxing, small gap in the white corner of the last leaf of vol. 2, contemporary sponged calf bindings, title within a green label on the five-ribbed spine, gold plant decorations, green spray edges, some small losses on the spines, minor defects.
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A splendid example of the most important and refined early edition of Machiavelli's works. After over two centuries of censorship, during which his works circulated only in clandestine editions, the new cultural climate of the Enlightenment enabled the author's full rehabilitation. Thus, symbolically, this edition was born in Florence and with the support of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, based on in-depth research in city libraries and archives, considered "an authentic literary monument" (Procacci, Studi sulla fortune di Machiavelli, Rome, 1965, p. 375).
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