La catanoise ou histoire secrète des mouvements arrivez au royaume de Naples, sous la reine Jeanne I
Chez Pierre Gandouin|à Paris 1731|16 x 9.50 cm|relié
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First edition. Barbier I, 527. Contemporary full sheep binding, decorated raised spine. Upper headcap missing and lower headcap worn. Edges rubbed with leather lacks. One corner slightly bumped. La Catanoise was the wet nurse of Queen Joanna of Naples and mother of Robert de Cabanes (grand seneschal of Sicily), of humble origins she experienced an extraordinary social ascension in the kingdom of Naples, which she owed to her ambition and venality.
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