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Thursday 11 December 2025 e Friday 12 December 2025, 03:00 PM • Rome

207 Storia

Campo, Antonio

Cremona, a most faithful city and most noble colony of the Romans, represented in a drawing [...] by Antonio Campo, a painter and knight from Cremona, 1585

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Cremona, in the house of the same author, 1585. In folio. 5 figures in two plates outside the text with the main buildings of the city and 1 map with the Discrittione dil contado territorio et diocesi di Cremona engraved in copper outside the text, allegorical frontispiece, on the verso portrait of Philip II in oval without cap, Apotheosis of the city of Cremona on folio +2v, portrait of the author on folio +4r, vignette depicting the exit of the Carrocium from the city on page 13, and 33 oval portraits (plus one left blank) of illustrious figures, all intaglio, woodcut frame framing the pages of text and many splendid figured initials engraved in wood. The large map of Cremona is missing, restorations, reinforcements, burnishing, and damp stains. 18th century half-leather and cardboard binding.

Specialist Notes

First edition of this important and splendid work on Cremona, enhanced by two maps of the city and its surrounding countryside engraved by Davide da Lodi and portraits of the Dukes and Duchesses of Cremona and Milan by Agostino Carracci based on drawings by Antonio Campo, who also created the beautiful frontispiece, the allegory of Cremona, and the vignette depicting the exit of the Carroccio. Under the portrait of Maximilian on page 104, we read: "This effigy is taken from an oil painting by Leonardo da Vinci," a painting now lost.

Brunet I, 1526: «Original and rare edition of an estimated ouvrage»; Cicognara 3977; Choix IV, 4257.