[Rarebooks] FS: Scarce Italian trans. of Giovio's life of Alfonso I, Duke of Ferrara. (ca. 1557)

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Giovio, Paolo. LA VITA DI ALFONSO DA ESTE DUCA DI FERRARA... Tradotta in 
Lingua Toscano, da Giovambattista Gelli Fiorentino. Venice: Giovanni de’ Rossi. 
N.d. (circa 1557). Sm. 8vo. 552 (i.e. 152),(13),(1)pp. Index. Lacking last leaf, 
presumably blank (the register is on the verso of the last leaf of index). 
Woodcut printer’s device on title. Early vellum, morocco spine label. Some 
soiling to title and a bit in the text. Ex libris Marchionis Salsae.     $475.00 
(trade discount allowed)
Scarce second edition of the Italian translation (first is Florence: 1553) of 
Giovio’s life of Alfonso I, of Este, Duke of Ferrara (1476-1534) and husband 
of the famous Lucretia Borgia, daughter of Pope Alexander VI. BM STC Italian, 
p. 303. Not in Adams or OCLC or the N.U.C.

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