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Epistolae principum, rerumpublicarum, ac sapientum virorum. : Ex antiquis & recentioribus, tàm Graecis, quàm Latinis historijs & annalibus collectae. Opus ad rerum cognitionem, & ad prudentiam comparandam apprime vtile, aphphtegmatum & grauium responsorum innumeram & auream copiam continens. Nunquam antea editum

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Description: First edition of a collection of letters of princes and other learned men from antiquity which are compared with those of the Renaissance and the author's own time. The anthology was edited by Girolamo Donzellini, a physician in Brescia and Venice.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: M.D.LXXIIII. [1574].
Call number: 374967
Provenance: Inscription on free endpaper at beginning: J.H. Lupton.
Dimensions: 16 cm (8vo)
Associated people: Donzellini, Girolamo, (-1588,); Ziletti, Giordano, (active 16th century,)
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