The Historie of Guicciardin: Containing The Warres Of Italie and other partes, continued for manie yeares under sundrie Kings and Princes…Reduced into English by Geffray Fenton
de GUICCIARDINI, [Francesco] [1482-1540]
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London: Imprinted by Richard Field…sold by Arthur Johnson, 1618. folio. pp. 4 p.l., 821, [8]index. [leaves of signature F misbound]. woodcut device on title. woodcut ornaments & initials. 19th century half sheep over marbled bds. (rubbed, front joint cracked, some marginal dampstaining, small library stamp on title & bookplate, small hole in title costing 1 digit from imprint date, leaves closely trimmed with the occasional side-note shaved). Third Edition of the English Translation by Sir Geoffrey Fenton [1539?-1608]. Guicciardini's history "remains the most solid monument of the Italian reason in the 16th century, the final triumph of the Florentine school of philosophical Historians which included Machiavelli, Segni.". (J.A.Symonds) "Guicciardini is the first 'universal historian', as he sees the history of Italy in the larger context of the European system of States, with sound political instinct and devoid of ecclesiastical bias." (Printing and the Mind of Man) Including a small section discussing Portuguese and Spanish explorations, the voyages of Columbus and Vespucci. STC 12460. European Americana 618/55. cfPforzheimer 442. cfPrinting and the Mind of Man 85..
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