1600 FAMILY LETTERS, COURT SECRETS, & RUINS OF TIME IN BAROQUE VENICE antique

LETTERE FAMILIARI, SEGRETI DI CORTE E ROVINE DEL TEMPO NELLA VENEZIA BAROCCA

(FAMILY LETTERS, COURT SECRETS, AND THE RUINS OF TIME IN BAROQUE VENICE)


Venetia, press Gio. Battista Ciotti Senese; 1600.


A rare and evocative 17th-century Venetian edition of Gio. Battista Leoni's Family Letters, a work dedicated to the art of correspondence, private diplomacy, and refined conversation in late-Renaissance Italy. 

Original limp vellum, soiled, worn
 lacks endpapers, binding is partially loose (holds on cords), last leaf partially missing

with ancient, reused paper fragments applied internally as structural reinforcement.

Good interior

16, 518 lvs.

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Giovan Battista Leoni was an author active between the late 16th and early 17th centuries, best known for his collections of letters and moral and rhetorical texts. His works are part of the great Italian tradition of letter forms, a fundamental genre in the administrative, diplomatic, and educational culture of the modern age.
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 Size 4 by 6" 

Text in Italian
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