Historia Vinetiana di Paolo Paruta Cavaliere, E Procuratore dis. Marco. Divisa in Due Parti. In questa notsra Impressione aricchita delle postille marginalie, e degli Argomenti à ciascin Libro.
Hardcover
1645 · Venice
by PARUTA, Paolo (1540-1598)
Venice: Per gli Heredi di Tomaso Giunti, e Francesco Baba, 1645. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to, two volumes in one, separately titled (262 x 172mm). Pagination: [4], 596pp., [30, index], 232pp., [16, index]. Signatures: +(2), A-Z(8), Aa-Pp(8), Qq(10), a-q(8). Copperplate engraved oval author portrait on title page with inscription, Pavlvs Parvta eqves ac divi marci procvrator aetatis svae an LVIII, and within frame decorated by lion skin, putti, and boughs of foliage, double ruled border. Text in italic. Printed catchwords and marginalia. Dedicated to the Doge of Venice, Marino Grimani (1532-1605). Near contemporary mottled calf, gilt on turn-ins and five compartments on spine, lettering label replaced with manuscript title PARUTA HIST VENET., marbled edges; (some outerwear and joints slightly splitting, front endpapers and only few leaves of first quire with some edgewear, or light browning, rest of text block clean and good). Front pastedown with the armorial bookplate of the Earl of Ilchester, Henry Edward Fox-Strangways of Melbury (1847-1905), with motto Faire sans Dire: To do without saying. The sixth Earl of Ilchester was a keen sportsman and accomplished historian of the Holland family; his private collection of art and books was well known
in British society and a privately printed catalogue of its contents was issued in 1883.
Important annotated edition of Paolo Parutas Historia Vinetiana; first published posthumously in Venice by Domenico Nicolini in 1605. Much more common is the reprinted edition by Angeli in 1705, then another by Lovisa in 1718; although, an English translation (London: 1658) is also found. Written in two parts, the first part of the Historia Vinetiana continued the narrative of the history of Venice where Pietro Bembo had left off (in the year 1513) and carried it through to 1552. The second part, in three books, covers the Cyprian
War from 1570 to 1571 (and other minor battles), the yielding of the island of Cyprus to the Turks, and the creation of the Holy League under Pope Pius V. Paolo Paruta, whose finely engraved author portrait in a Herculean-esque frame adorns the first title page, was a Venetian politician, historiographer, and the official ambassador of the Republic at Rome. He held several illustrious titles over his lifetime, including the Procurator of St. Marks in 1596 (next in dignity to the doge). So esteemed throughout the Venetian Republic was Paruta that he had the honor of sitting for a portrait by Tintoretto. Paruta was only prevented from becoming a Venetian doge by his death in 1598. Immediately afterwards, his circles, namely Giovanni Paruta et fratelli, advocated for the promotion and publication of Parutas
works; this 1645 edition printed by Giunti and Baba follows the editio princeps with the humble dedication by the brothers and includes delle postille marginalie, or printed annotations in the margins. A wonderful, classic sixteenth-century account of the Serenissima City; written by the man who was unequivocally linked with its history. OCLC
locates copies in many major European libraries and in the US at Princeton; UPenn; Keller Library; NYPL; Yale; Dumbarton Oaks; Syracuse; U. Michigan; Cincinnati Public Library and the Newberry. (Inventory #: WB15768)
in British society and a privately printed catalogue of its contents was issued in 1883.
Important annotated edition of Paolo Parutas Historia Vinetiana; first published posthumously in Venice by Domenico Nicolini in 1605. Much more common is the reprinted edition by Angeli in 1705, then another by Lovisa in 1718; although, an English translation (London: 1658) is also found. Written in two parts, the first part of the Historia Vinetiana continued the narrative of the history of Venice where Pietro Bembo had left off (in the year 1513) and carried it through to 1552. The second part, in three books, covers the Cyprian
War from 1570 to 1571 (and other minor battles), the yielding of the island of Cyprus to the Turks, and the creation of the Holy League under Pope Pius V. Paolo Paruta, whose finely engraved author portrait in a Herculean-esque frame adorns the first title page, was a Venetian politician, historiographer, and the official ambassador of the Republic at Rome. He held several illustrious titles over his lifetime, including the Procurator of St. Marks in 1596 (next in dignity to the doge). So esteemed throughout the Venetian Republic was Paruta that he had the honor of sitting for a portrait by Tintoretto. Paruta was only prevented from becoming a Venetian doge by his death in 1598. Immediately afterwards, his circles, namely Giovanni Paruta et fratelli, advocated for the promotion and publication of Parutas
works; this 1645 edition printed by Giunti and Baba follows the editio princeps with the humble dedication by the brothers and includes delle postille marginalie, or printed annotations in the margins. A wonderful, classic sixteenth-century account of the Serenissima City; written by the man who was unequivocally linked with its history. OCLC
locates copies in many major European libraries and in the US at Princeton; UPenn; Keller Library; NYPL; Yale; Dumbarton Oaks; Syracuse; U. Michigan; Cincinnati Public Library and the Newberry. (Inventory #: WB15768)