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Lettere di principi : le quali ò si scriuono da principi, ò à principi, ò ragionan di principi, o ragionan di principi. Libro primo-[terzo].

Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection IC5 R8924 562l 1570 v.1-3
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Ruscelli, Girolamo, -approximately 1565.
Ziletti, Francesco, -1587?
Ziletti, Giordano, active 16th century.
Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Italian Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
Italian
Subjects (All):
Italian letters--Early works to 1800.
Italian letters.
History.
Europe--History--1492-1648--Sources.
Europe.
Genre:
Sources.
Penn Provenance:
North, Frederick, Earl of Guilford, 1766-1827 (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)
Valsecchi, Pietro di (autograph) (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)
Physical Description:
3 volumes ; 21 cm (4to)
Edition:
In questa terza editione migliorato, & accresciuto / aggiuntiui gli argomenti di ciascuna lettera, i quali sommariamente toccano tutto quello, che all'historia appartiene.
Fingerprint:
aron reil a.V. XIso (3) 1570 (R) v.1
g-di 8077 n-re padi (3) 1575 (R) v.2
i,r- 3241 o,ue faso (3) 1577 (R) v.3
Place of Publication:
In Venetia : Appresso Giordan Ziletti & compagni, 1570-1577.
Notes:
Title from v. 1. Titles of v. 2-3 vary slightly.
Vols. 2-3 have no edition statement. They are dated 1575 and 1577, respectively.
Dedicatory letters are by Girolamo Ruscelli in v. 1 (dated Dec. 15, 1561), by Francesco Ziletti in v. 2 (dated Nov. 22, 1575), and by Giordano Ziletti in v. 3 (dated Oct. 10, 1577)
Vol. 1: [32], 247, [1] leaves; v. 2: [6], 257, [1] leaves; v. 3: [8], 278 [i.e. 280], [8] leaves.
Printer's device on title page of each volume.
Woodcut initials; head-pieces.
Includes indexes.
Local Notes:
Culture Class Collection copy bound in full vellum; title stamped in gold on spines; marbled edges.
Culture Class Collection copy has armorial bookplate of Honorable Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford (1766 -1827) with motto "La vertu est la seule noblesse" on front pastedown of each vol.
Culture Class Collection copy has ms. ownership inscription: "Ad Usum Petri de Valsecchis Brixiensis 1668" on title page of vol. 1.
Cited in:
Adams L563-564
BM STC Italian, 1465-1600, p. 593
OCLC:
17298039

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