Giovanni Battista CINI
Descritione della pompa funerale fatta nelle essequie del Ser. Sig. Cosimo de Medici Gran Duca de Toscana
Giunta|In Fiorenza [Florence] • (Florence) 1574|15 x 22 cm|relié
The rare first edition. Printer's device on the verso of the final leaf. Renaissance frame engraved for the title page, with a title vignette representing the city of Florence. A medallion portrait of Cosimo de' Medici on the verso of the title page, and a historiated initial on the first page of text. Printed in italics. The work is neither paginated nor foliated.
19th-century rigid full vellum Bradel binding signed E. Jarrigean, with beveled edges. Smooth spine with title in pen and ink calligraphy in red and black. Title page 1 cm shorter in bottom margin. Yellow dampstain from gathering B to gathering e, from bottom to middle of leaves. Handsome copy.
Having died in 1574, Cosimo de' Medici was Duke of Florence and the first Grand Duke of Tuscany. He restored the Medici dynasty after the assassination of Alessandro de' Medici who had no direct descendant. He was responsible for Florence's expansion and control of Tuscany as well as patronage very beneficial to the arts. The governmental structures he established endured even under Austro-Hungarian domination. The work constructs praise of the great figure and recounts his funeral. It was this political figure of primary importance in the 16th century who served as the model for Machiavelli's Prince.
Bookplate DF. 1902.
19th-century rigid full vellum Bradel binding signed E. Jarrigean, with beveled edges. Smooth spine with title in pen and ink calligraphy in red and black. Title page 1 cm shorter in bottom margin. Yellow dampstain from gathering B to gathering e, from bottom to middle of leaves. Handsome copy.
Having died in 1574, Cosimo de' Medici was Duke of Florence and the first Grand Duke of Tuscany. He restored the Medici dynasty after the assassination of Alessandro de' Medici who had no direct descendant. He was responsible for Florence's expansion and control of Tuscany as well as patronage very beneficial to the arts. The governmental structures he established endured even under Austro-Hungarian domination. The work constructs praise of the great figure and recounts his funeral. It was this political figure of primary importance in the 16th century who served as the model for Machiavelli's Prince.
Bookplate DF. 1902.
€800