GUICCARDINI, FRANCESCO.

La Historia D'Italia. Nuouamente riscontrata con tutti gli altri Historici & Auttori, che del-L'istesse cose habbiano scritto: et ornata in margine con l'Annotatione dee' riscontri da Thomaso Porcacchi.

Venetia, Giorgio Angelieri, 1574.

Small4to. Bound in 17th century full vellum. Printed paper titlelabel on spine. Small nicks at foot of spine. Printers woodcut device on title-page, repeated twice. Some wood-cut initials. Ff (36),16,488. Light browning to a few leaves, a few scattered brownspots.

Ealy edition of Guiccardini's famous and influential history of Italy, "The basis of all later works on the beginnings of modern history" called by Ranke. This edition comprises 16 Books, later expanded into 20. The first edition of 1561 had 10 Books.
Guiccardini was a friend and critic of Niccolò Machiavelli, and he is considered one of the major political writers of the Italian Renaissance. The History of Italy paved the way for a new style in historiography with its use of government sources to support arguments and the realistic analysis of the people and events of his time.
PMM, 85 (for the 1.ed.) - Adams, 1514 (1583-ed.).

Order-nr.: 52981