1657 ROMAN HISTORY of LUCIUS ANNAEUS FLORUS antique VELLUM BINDING Elzevir Press

L.ANNAEUS FLORUS

Cl. Salmasius
addidit
Lucium Ampelium

(Works of Roman historian Lucius Annaeus Florus edited by Salmasius (Claude Saumaise)

Lugduni Batavorum (Leiden): Apud Elzeviriana; 1657


Engraved title page

Original vellum with title labels to the spine, marbled endpapers

Bookplates to the front endpapers


Size: 3 by 4 3/4"

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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