Discorsi di Nicolo Machiauelli, fiorentino, sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio : diuisi in tre libri.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527.

Contributor:

Nicolini da Sabbio, Giovanni Antonio, printer.

Sessa, Melchiorre, active 1506-1549, publisher.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Italian Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Livy.

Political science--Early works to 1800.

Political science.

Italy--Politics and government--1268-1559.

Italy.

Politics and government.

Penn Provenance:

Chadbourne, Arthur P. (inscription) (autograph)

Storer, Malcolm, 1862- (inscription)

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered leaves, 200 leaves (final verso blank) ; 16 cm (8vo)

Edition:

Nuouamente ristampati.

Other Title:

Discorsi di Nicolo Machiavelli, fiorentino, sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio.

Fingerprint:

1918 32le ,&ta tore (3) 1537 (R)

Place of Publication:

In Vinegia : Per Giouann' Antonio de Nicolini da Sabio, ad instantia de M. Merchiore Sessa, Ne glianni del Signore. MDXXXVII. Del mese d'agosto. [1537]

Notes:

Imprint from colophon.

Sessa's device on title page.

Signatures: *⁸ A-2B⁸.

Errors in foliation: leaves 48, 77, 79, and 95 misnumbered 45, 79, 81, and 97 respectively.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy bound in full vellum; author's name stamped in gold on a brown leather label on spine; all edges red.

Culture Class Collection copy has ms. inscription "Malcom Storer from A. P. C. June '93 Arthur P. Chadbourne ... London / 92" on verso of front free endpaper.

Culture Class Collection copy has card of Dr. Arthur P. Chadbourne, with ms. inscription: "Dear Mike, this copy of Machiavelli ought to belong to you, I think, not because of its teachings, but you can read Italian and I can't, so please don't return it to me. It is not the edition I told you of (I gave[?] that away in England) but it is one of the first half dozen, and the version is, I believe, from the best Italian revision. The binding is modern and the --- D binder declared I told him to trim the edges. That binder lied. APC" laid in.

Culture Class Collection copy has two leaves of ms. bibliographic notes laid in: one leaf is pasted to the front free endpaper and the other one is laid in.

Culture Class Collection copy bound with: Machiavelli, Niccolò. Il principe de Nicolo Machiauelli al magnifico Lorenzo di Piero de Medici. [S.l. : s.n.], MDXXXV [1535]

Cited in:

Bertelli & Innocenti. Bibliografia machiavelliana, XVI. 31

Gerber, A. Machiavelli, II, p. 18-19, no. 7

EDIT 16 CNCE 68019

OCLC:

33889186