Small folio, contemporary quarter vellum binding with gilt ornamentation and lettering and (faded) handwriting in contemporary hand to spine, pink-sprinkled boards and pages edges, pp. [4], 880, [76]. Binding bumped, rubbed and chipped at extremities, mild foxing and browning to pages, spine and hinges tender; otherwise a very good copy of the first edition of one of Bartoli’s late works. Daniello Bartoli was a seventeenth-century Italian Jesuit historiographer and scholar, celebrated by Giacomo Leopardi as the ‘Dante of Italian prose’. Text in Italian.
