[Rarebooks] FS: Benevenga's Venetian handbook on formal letter writing ca. 1690

[Kenneth Karmiole]

Benvenga, Michele. PROTEO SEGRETARIO DI LETTERE MODERNE. A Tutti i Prencipi dell’Europa, ed Altri Qualificati Soggetti. Venice: Domenico Lovisa. No date (circa 1690). 12mo. (4),514pp. plus (8)pp. publisher’s ads. Orig. plain boards, hand lettered spine.      $150.00 (trade discount allowed)
A handbook for proper letter-writing form, divided by the type of letter, such as “letter of congratulations” and numerous examples of letters written to famous Italian men of the day.

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