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82. "Historia dela Transilvania", by Ciro Spontone, editio princeps, Latin, Venice, 1638

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EUR 800

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EUR 3.250

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Tue, 21 November 2023 19:00

Ciro Spontone’s book is complete, having 16 sheets + 351 pages. The book binding is made of cardboard plates wrapped in brown marbled leather. The book spine contains printed ornaments of typographical compositions and successions of gilded vines. Artistically, the orderly graphic aspect draws the attention; the frontispieces, the ornate initials and the vignetetes, but particularly for the engraving on the title page, performed by Ciro Spontone, an Italian writer and poet, originally from Bologna. Over his lifetime, he held the position of secretary of the governor from Ancona, C. Boncompagni, of L. Bentivoglio from Castelo, of the duke of Nemours from Turin, of the marquis Marco Pio of Sassuolo and of the marquis of Castiglione, Rodolfo Gonzaga. During his time in the service of Gonzaga, he wrote the book on the war in Transylvania. For a brief time, he was also a governor in Rovigo, and between 1600 and 1610, he was a secretary of the Bologna Senate. He wrote, among other things, the poem Nero (1588), Hercule difensore d,Homero (1595), Dodici libri del governo di Stato (Verona, 1599), La corona del principe (Verona,1590), Il Bottrigaro (Verona, 1589) e Hercole difensore di Homero (Verona, 1595), a comment on Tasso’s poetry (Verona, 1587), and Attioni de’ re dell’Ungheria (Bologna, 1602), the famous Metoposcopia, and Historia della Transilvania (Venezia, 1638). The book Historia della Transilvania is of real interest for the history of Romanians and of Michal the Brave (Mihai Viteazul). In fact, as a secretary of Austrian secretary Basta, he wrote his memories, under the notified title, which he printed in 1638 at Venice, in the printing house of Giacomo Sarzina. Historically, the military memorial provides an impressive fresco of the social-economic, political, and military realities in the Carpathian-Danube space during the time of Mihai Viteazul. An original copy, it contains significant engravings and decorations, it is well-preserved and it has special patrimonial value.

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width 16.5 cm, height 21.5 cm

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