Delle Rivoluzioni d'Italia, libri venticinque.

Florence: Piatti, 1820. Good. 22 cm; 5 volumes. Mezzotint portrait frontispiece in first volume. Publisher's plain wraps. Untrimmed, unsophisticated copy. Wraps perishing along spines from sunlight; threads weak. Upper wrap of volume one not present. Scattered light foxing.

First published in three volumes between 1769 and 1772, this comprehensive history of Italy covers the many invasions, revolts, conspiracies and power struggles that marked Italian politics from Roman times until the Enlightenment. The author later became librarian to Napoleon, and died in Paris.