Egnazio, Giovanni Battista

Oratio habita in funere clarissimi impe. Nicolai Ursini Nolae Petilianique principis.

      [n.pl. n.pr.] [Venice, Gregorio de Gregori?] n.d. [1510?]. - First edition. 4to., 26 unnumbered leaves (signed A-B8, C10). With blank final leaf. First leaf with title in capitals (verso blank). Woodcut initial at beginning of text. First leaf strengthened at inner margin (blank), with a small tear in blank margin as well; light soiling to first leaf recto and final leaf verso; light waterstaining throughout; still a good copy, bound in modern quarter calf and marbled pasteboards. All edges green. Funeral oration by the Venetian humanist Giovanni Battista Egnazio (1473-1553) for the condottiere and leader of the Venetian army Niccolo Orsini, Count of Pitigliano (1443-1510). Orsini came to particular prominence in the battles of 1509 between Venice and the League of Cambrai, and was referred to by Machiavelli in ‘The Prince’. Adams E 84. CNCE 18050 (both dating the work to 1509, probably following references in the book to this year; Orsini however died in January 1510). [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy]