GIOVIO, Paolo (1483-1552) - Le vite di dicenove huomini illustri. Venice: Giovan Maria Bonelli, 1561.   Interesting collection of biographies of notable men of the Italian Renaissance composed by Paolo Giovio and published for the first time in Latin in Florence in 1549, here translated for the first time in vernacular Italian.   4to (200 x 145mm). Printer's device on title, woodcut initials (restored corner of the first gatherings with little loss of letters, small wormtrack in gatherings B-D with little loss of letters, little marginal waterstains). 18th-century calf with blindstamped fillets on covers, gilt decorations and title on spine, gilt decorated inlays, speckled edges (defects especially on spine). Provenance: L. Borisot Canonici Vesentini (ownership inscription on endpaper) - Soldati-Hubbard De Veaux (ex libris on endpaper).

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