Diaria de Bello Carolino (Diary of the Caroline War). Edited a with Introduction, Translation, and Notes by Dorothy M. Schullian.

New York: The Renaissance Society of America, Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., (1967). Octavo, red cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, ix, 276 pp. Fine in a Very Good dust jacket with light edgewear. From dust jacket: The triumphant expedition of Charles VIII of France to Naples in 1494 and his forced marches back through Italy the next year have been chronicled by many writers, from varying points of view. They have also described the important battle of Fornovo, at which Charles was opposed by massed troops representing the League formed by the Venetian Senate, Lodovico Sforza of Milan, Maximilian I, Pope Alexander VI, and Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain -- the first time since ancient Rome that Italians had united against a foreign invader. The hideous siege of Novara which followed has had a prominent place in these accounts. Alessandro Benediction holds an important and distinctive rank among these writers. At home in the humanities as well as in medicine, he created in the Diaria a document of unique value both as history and literature. Benedettie was eyewitness to many of the events that he relates, and he provides for the general historian rich detail recorded nowhere else. As physician sent by the Venetian Senate he includes medical observations of particular interest to historians of medicine, and for these historians, who have known him heretofore mainly from his purely medical and anatomical works, he provides valuable information about himself. Benedetti’s account of the Caroline War, first published in 1496 by Aldus Manutius, is now issued in its first really modern edition, with a faithful English translation facing the Latin original, and with an introduction and commentary by the editor.