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VILLANI, Giovanni (1280-1348). Chroniche de Messer Giovanni Villani... nelle quali si tratta dell'origine de Firenze.. Venice: Bartolomeo Zanetti, August 1537.
2° in 8s (290 x 202mm.). With uncancelled leaves Q2 and 7 (i.e. Q2r, line 8 ends 'fior', Q7v with marginal note), Zanetti's woodcut putto device on title and repeated on verso of final leaf. 18th-century vellum. Provenance: Stefano Spinola (partly obscured ink ownership inscription, some marginalia).
FIRST EDITION. Villani 'was the son of a well-to-do Florentine merchant who belonged to that class which helped to establish the democratic priorate system of government [in Florence] toward the end of the thirteenth century. In 1300, the year of the Great Jubilee, the twenty-year-old Villani was inspired by the ancient Roman historians to become his native city's chronicler. He died of the plague during the Black Death.' (H.Acton & E.Chaney, compilors. Florence A Traveller's Companion, 1986). Mortimer Italian, 540; Brunet V,1225.
2° in 8s (290 x 202mm.). With uncancelled leaves Q2 and 7 (i.e. Q2r, line 8 ends 'fior', Q7v with marginal note), Zanetti's woodcut putto device on title and repeated on verso of final leaf. 18th-century vellum. Provenance: Stefano Spinola (partly obscured ink ownership inscription, some marginalia).
FIRST EDITION. Villani 'was the son of a well-to-do Florentine merchant who belonged to that class which helped to establish the democratic priorate system of government [in Florence] toward the end of the thirteenth century. In 1300, the year of the Great Jubilee, the twenty-year-old Villani was inspired by the ancient Roman historians to become his native city's chronicler. He died of the plague during the Black Death.' (H.Acton & E.Chaney, compilors. Florence A Traveller's Companion, 1986). Mortimer Italian, 540; Brunet V,1225.