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1544 · Venice
by FESTUS
Venice: Agostino [Bindoni] Milanese, 1544. 8vo (149 x 98 mm). A8 B4 (B4, presumed blank, removed). [22] pages. Italic type. Fine woodcut title border with grotesques and St. George slaying the dragon at the foot, one metalcut initial. Fine. 20th-century havana goatskin, title gilt-lettered on front cover (Sesto Ruffo volgare). ***
First Edition in Italian of the Breviarium rerum gestarum populi romani, a short and flawed epitome of Roman history written for the emperor Valens (who may have been illiterate), by Festus, usually identified as the senator from Tridentum and probably imperial secretary, “who won notoriety for his execution of the (truncated)
First Edition in Italian of the Breviarium rerum gestarum populi romani, a short and flawed epitome of Roman history written for the emperor Valens (who may have been illiterate), by Festus, usually identified as the senator from Tridentum and probably imperial secretary, “who won notoriety for his execution of the (truncated)
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