Lettere del gran Mahumeto imperadore de' Turchi : scritte a diuersi re, prencipi, signori, e republiche, con le risposte loro / ridotte nella volgar lingua da M. Lodouico Dolce ; insieme con le lettere di Falaride tiranno degli Agrigentini.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zacchia, Laudivio, approximately 1435-

Contributor:

Mehmed II, Sultan of the Turks, 1432-1481.

Phalaris, Tyrant of Agrigentum, active 6th century B.C.

Giolito de' Ferrari, Gabriele, printer.

Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Italian Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Epistolae magni Turci. Italian

Language:

Italian

Undetermined

Subjects (All):

History.

Turkey--History--1453-1683.

Turkey.

Turkey--History--Mehmet II, 1452-1481--Sources.

Turkey--Foreign relations--Early works to 1800.

International relations.

Genre:

Sources.

Penn Provenance:

Stefano (autograph) (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

192 pages ; 16 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Lettere del gran Mahvmeto imperadore de' Tvrchi

Fingerprint:

e.er i.ue here prch (3) 1563 (R)

Place of Publication:

In Vinegia : Appresso Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari, MDLXIII [1563]

Notes:

Signatures: A-M⁸.

Printer's device (Zappella 535) on title-page.

Purportedly a translation of letters of Mehmet II, Sultan of Turkey, actually written by Laudivio. Cf. F.C.H. Babinger. Laudivius Zacchia, Erdichter der Epistolae magni Turci. 1960.

"Lettere di Falaride tiranno de gli agrigentini": p. 57-189.

Woodcut initials; head- and tail pieces.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy bound in full parchment; author, title and printing date in ms. on spine; remains of two leather ties; ms. title on lower edges.

Culture Class Collection copy has two ms. inscriptions: "Molto Alt[issi]mo [?] Sr. mio Ora.tori." and "di me Steffano" on title page.

Cited in:

BM STC Italian, 1465-1600, p. 455

Bongi, S. Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari, II, p. 163-164

EDIT 16 CNCE 26436

OCLC:

4805284