Historiae Florentinae Nicolai Machiavelli, civis et secretarii Florentini, libri octo : in quibus migrationes populorum septentrionalium, post devictos à C. Mario Cimbros : item ruina imperii Romani, & incrementum Pontificum : inprimis Florentinorum origo et progressus : eorumque res gestae, simul & universae Italiae status, ad Caroli VIII. regis Galliae traiectum in Italiam, acuratissime describuntur / nunc primum omnes Latinitate donati, at[que] ob varium amoenum[que] tam rerum quàm doctrinarum Politicarum penum, in commodum utilitatem[que] publicam typis vulgati.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527, author.

Contributor:

Turler, Jerome, 1550-1602, translator.

Zetzner, Lazarus, 1551-1616, publisher.

Julia G.Haney Fund.

Standardized Title:

Istorie fiorentine. Latin

Language:

Italian

Latin

Subjects (All):

Florence (Italy)--History--Early works to 1800.

Florence (Italy).

Italy--Florence.

Genre:

History.

Penn Provenance:

Hough, Samuel J., 1939-2019 (former owner) (Kislak Center copy)

Hough, Penelope (former owner) (Kislak Center copy)

Esch, Joannes Raymundus von (autograph) (Kislak Center copy)

Physical Description:

[2], 29, [1], 494, [26] p. ; 16 cm. (8vo)

Fingerprint:

a-n- umid *,i, Imdu (3) 1610 (R)

Place of Publication:

Argentorati : Impensis Lazari Zetzneri bibliop., Anno MDCX [1610]

Language Note:

Latin translation by Jerome Turler of: Istorie fiorentine.

Notes:

Signatures: a-b⁸ A-2I⁸ 2K⁴.

Woodcut title vignette (device), illustration (portrait) and initials.

Printed marginalia.

"Catruccii Castracani Luccensis vita": Pages 465-494.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center copy has early drawing of Machiavelli's coat of arms (with caption: ARMA MACHIA= VELLICA) on front pastedown; two early manuscript proverbs, one in Latin ("Otium sine litteris hominis mors e[s]t et sepultura") and one in German ("Kunst bringt gunst."), on front free endpaper; early manuscript note in German ("Gott allein die Ehre.") on back free endpaper; early manuscript quotation from Vergil's Aeneid 10.361 ("Concurru[n]t haesit pede pes densus[que] viro vir.") on back free endpaper.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Julia G.Haney Fund.

Kislak Center copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2020 from Penelope Hough.

Kislak Center copy has armorial bookplate (d'azur à la bande d'or, accostée de deux fleurs de lis de même; motto: Virtutis invidia comes) engraved by Micaud of an unidentified former owner afffixed to front pastedown.

Kislak Center copy has autograph ("Joannes Raymundus Von Esch von augspurg.") on verso of back free endpaper.

Cited in:

Gerber, A. Machiavelli, II, p. 89-90, no. 1

VD 17 1:084539R

Contains:

Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527. Vita di Castruccio Castracani.

OCLC:

84225052