Description
FIRST EDITION, printed in Venice in Latin, of the funeral oration for Niccolò Orsini (1442 - 1510) count of Pitigliano known as Niccolò di Pitigliano. A military leader from 1458 in Florence, Naples and in the service of the Pope, from 1495 he led, together with his cousin Bartolomeo d'Alviano, the army of the Republic of Venice, famous for the Battle of Agnadel against the coalition of countries grouped together in the League of Cambrai: Pope Julius II, King Louis XII of France, Emperor Maximilian I of Germany and King Ferdinand of Aragon.
Giovanni Battista (or Giambattista) Egnazio (1478 - 1553), born in Venice Humanist, philologist, poet and prose writer, member of the Aldine Academy, he was a pupil of Angelo Politian and a pupil of Leo X. He was a friend of Erasmus and Pietro Bembo. A friend of Erasmus and Pietro Bembo, he taught eloquence in Venice (in 1520) and wrote numerous commentaries on classical works, published by Aldo Manuzio.
A rare text in a fine mid-sixteenth-century Paris binding.
Sixteenth century Parisian binding, brown morocco, decorated with tracery drawn in small irons, fillet and fleurons. Spine decorated with fillets and fleurons, gilt edges. Period annotations in the margins. Copy washed, endpapers replaced.
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