Histoire des voyages de Monsieur le marquis Ville en Levant, et du siège de Candie ; écrite par L. P. Ioseph Du Cros

Édition originale, une édition parisienne parut la même année, cf Cioranescu, XVII, 26842. Brunet V, 1222, à l'article "Villa", signale cette édition parisienne sous le titre de Voyage. Blackmer 505.

Reliure en plein vélin rigide, dos lisse, titre inscri à l'encre noire en tête du dos, tranches mouchetées, reliure de l'époque. 

"This work is an abridged version of, or rather based on, Rostagno's Viaggi Dell'… Sign. Marchese Ghiron Francesco Villa In Dalmatia, e Levante, Torino, 1668. Du Cros, who in the preface says Rostagno lent him his manuscript, has produced a day-by-day account of the siege of Candia and of Villa's part in it. Villa took up arms against the Turks in 1665, sustained the siege of Candia for 2 years, and died of his wounds after he returned to Italy in 1668. According to Breslau, Du Cros, a diplomat who later carried out missions for Charles II and was involved in the marriage negociations of William and Mary, had travelled in the Levant and been in Crete himself as a follower of Ghiron Francesco Villa, but this is not mentioned in the preface, although Du Cros does speak of his obligations to Villa and apologizes to the reader for beginning his account with the last part of Villa's life, since he had intended originally to produce a full biography of the man" [Leonora Navari].