1631 VENICE HISTORY Elzevir DIALOGI de REPUBLICA VENETORUM antique ILLUSTRATED

DIALOGI de REPUBLICA VENETORUM

by DONATO GIANNOTTI

Lugduni Batavorum (Leiden): Ex Officina Elzeviriana; 1631

Title page with Lion of St.Mark engraved by Cornelis Claesz Duysend

Illustrated with 5 fold out engravings

Original vellum with manuscript title to the spine

Red edges

Front inner hinge reinforced, one plate laid down,  last 3 leaves replaced with old manuscript

Size: 2.5 by 4.5"

Text in Latin
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Donato Giannotti (1492 –  1573) was an Italian political writer and playwright.

He was one of the leaders of the short-lived Florentine Republic of 1527. He subsequently wrote theoretical works on republicanism. After the return of the Medicis, he lived in exile, dying in Rome. He was supported by Cardinal Niccolò Ridolfi.

He became acquainted with Michelangelo at the time he worked in the Signoria in Florence. According to Vasari, Giannotti approached Michelangelo with the commission from Ridolfi, for the Brutus.
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