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GIOVIO, Paolo (1483-1552). Le vite de I dodeci Visconti che Signoreggiarono Milano. Milan: Giovanni Battista Bidelli, 1645.
4o (248 x 182 mm). Engraved frontispiece and 14 engraved plates (one repeated). 18th-century blind-tooled calf (rebacked).Provenance: acquired from Reichner, 1963.
Paolo Giovio (or Jovius) was an Italian physician, historian and biographer, and prelate. He is chiefly known as the author of a celebrated work of contemporary history, Historiarum sui temporis libri XLV, of a collection of lives of famous men, Vitae virorum illustrium (1549 57), and of Elogia virorum bellica virtute illustrium (Praise of Men Illustrious for Courage in War), published in Florence, 1554. He is best remembered as a chronicler of the Italian Wars. His eyewitness accounts of many of the battles form one of the most significant primary sources for the period.
This work on the ruling family of Milan was first published in Venice, 1549. This edition includes a fine engraved portrait of the dedicatee, Honorato Visconti and fine engraved portraits of the twelve Visconti rulers. The engraved title of this is the same (except reversed and the title changed) as that used in Giorgio Merula's Antiquitatis Vicecomitum libri X, published in Milan, 1630--as well as the title-page of Philip Hofer's Baroque Book Illustration (1951).
4o (248 x 182 mm). Engraved frontispiece and 14 engraved plates (one repeated). 18th-century blind-tooled calf (rebacked).Provenance: acquired from Reichner, 1963.
Paolo Giovio (or Jovius) was an Italian physician, historian and biographer, and prelate. He is chiefly known as the author of a celebrated work of contemporary history, Historiarum sui temporis libri XLV, of a collection of lives of famous men, Vitae virorum illustrium (1549 57), and of Elogia virorum bellica virtute illustrium (Praise of Men Illustrious for Courage in War), published in Florence, 1554. He is best remembered as a chronicler of the Italian Wars. His eyewitness accounts of many of the battles form one of the most significant primary sources for the period.
This work on the ruling family of Milan was first published in Venice, 1549. This edition includes a fine engraved portrait of the dedicatee, Honorato Visconti and fine engraved portraits of the twelve Visconti rulers. The engraved title of this is the same (except reversed and the title changed) as that used in Giorgio Merula's Antiquitatis Vicecomitum libri X, published in Milan, 1630--as well as the title-page of Philip Hofer's Baroque Book Illustration (1951).