[Rarebooks] FS: Foglietta's history of Naples and Genoa printed in 1571.

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Foglietta, Uberto. EX UNIVERSA HISTORIA RERUM EUROPAE Suorum Temporum... 
Naples: Josephum Cacchium. 1571. Sm. 4to. ff.(6),97,(1). Early vellum, modern calf 
spine label. A nice wide margined copy. Some text soiling, and preliminary 
leaves with an old water stain at the blank outer margin.     $600.00 (trade 
discount allowed)
First edition (note below: there are 2 Naples 1571 printings). On the history 
of Naples and Genoa in the 16th century; the conspiracy of Gian Luigi Fieschi 
in Genoa (one of the earliest sources for Schiller’s      tragedy “Die 
Verschwoerung des Fiesco zu Genua”); the disturbances in Naples under Pedro de 
Toledo; and the assassination of Pietro Luigi Farnese, Duke of Parma in 1547. 
Adams F672 (the other edition of ff.(6),93.)

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