SANSOVINO, Francesco.

La historia delle cose fatte in diversi tempi da Signori di casa Orsina.

      First edition. Son of the great Venetian architect and sculptor Jacopo, Francesco Sansovino (1521-1586) wrote widely and much. This is his history of the Orsini family, dedicated to the Duke of Bracciano, himself an Orsini. Printed throughout in italics, it benefitted, Sansovino tells us, from access to the private Orsini archive and given its fine internal appearance also perhaps from a generous patron's subsidy. A much enlarged edition in folio appeared the following year (1565).This edition seems to be very rare. The Censimento records only two copies in Italy, at Rome (Biblioteca Hertziana) and Naples. Not in the BL. Not in NUC, OCLC, or RLIN. Venice, Nicolo Bevil'acqua, 1564.