MARCELLO (Pietro)

De vitis principum et gestis Venetorum compendium. Venice, per Cristophorum de Pensis

      - Folio. [54]ff. (last leaf blank). Contemporary wooden boards (once covered in leather), spine backed by paper in the 18th century?, title label pasted on spine (paper spine torn in places, no catches or clasps remain). 1502 Rare first edition of Pietro Marcello's history of the Doges of Venice, from the first Paolo Luccio Anafesto in 697 to the 74th Doge Agostino Barbarigo, who ruled from 1486-1501. In the last paragraph mention is made of Barbarigo's successor, the renowned Leonardo Loredan (1501-1521). Little is known of the author but he is almost certainly from the same patrician family as the 69th Doge Nicolo Marcello (previously a trader with the Orient who ruled for little more than a year in 1473/74). Marcello's work was brought up to date in 1554 by Silvestro Girelli, and then again in two editions in the Italian translation of Lodovico Domenichi in 1557 and 1558. Kellner's Frankfurt edition illustrated by Jost Amman appeared in Latin and German editions in 1574. BMSTC (Italian) p. 414. OCLC (Newberry, University of Illinois, Harvard, NYPL only). COPAC (British Library only).