1572 EARLY BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY by Girolamo RUSCELLI antique 16th CENTURY

 RUSCELLI, [Girolamo (d. 1566)]

 Indice de gl'uomini illustri, del Sig. Ieronimo Ruscelli.
Opera utilissima chiunque vorr hauer notitia, e valersi di tutti i nomi, & conditioni de gli uomini, & donne, & Dei, celebrati cos" da Poeti, come da gl'Istorici, e da Filosofi.


Venice: Comin da Trino di Monferrato; 1572

 [4], 172 leaves.


Woodcut printer's device on title, woodcut headband and decorative initial letters.

Eighteenth-century half calf over speckled boards, gilt spine with brown morocco label, decorative pastedown endpapers.

FIRST EDITION OF THIS EARLY BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY


 Ruscelli was a prolific scholar and writer; he was also known as Alessio Piedmontese.
His best-known works include Del modi di comporre in versi (1559), Commentari della lingua italiana (1576), and the beautifully-illustrated Le imprese illustri.
The present posthumously-published work is a biographical dictionary, identifying hundreds of men and women and their contributions.

Binding worn, light dampstain in bottom margin of first twenty or so leaves.

Title-page restored a lower corner. 

With armorial bookplate of Maturin Livingston Delafield (of the famous American family, the Livingstons) on front pastedown,
ink inscription of the grandson of the owner of the bookplate.

A very good copy.

-BM STC Italian, p. 593-

Size 6 by 7 3/4"

Text in Italian
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Maturin Livingston (Apri 1769 – 1847), a member of the prominent Livingston family, was an American lawyer and politician from New York.
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