83. "Comentarii asupra războiului din Transilvania (Commentarii della guerra di Transilvania)" ("Comments on the War in Transylvania"), by Ascanio Centorio degli Ortensi, Latin, two volumes, Venice, 1566, the first volume as a colligatum with "History of Greek Emperors" and "History of the Armenians in the Levant", by Francesco Sansovino, Latin, Venice, 1562
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83. "Comentarii asupra războiului din Transilvania (Commentarii della guerra di Transilvania)" ("Comments on the War in Transylvania"), by Ascanio Centorio degli Ortensi, Latin, two volumes, Venice, 1566, the first volume as a colligatum with "History of Greek Emperors" and "History of the Armenians in the Levant", by Francesco Sansovino, Latin, Venice, 1562
Starting price:
EUR 1.300
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EUR 2.000
1. 19.5 x 15 cm; 2. 21.5 x 15.5 cm
Ascanio Degli Centurio Ortensi (Hortensi), an Italian writer and historian, well-known due to
his literary writings, particularly poetic, describes in his book the wars with the Turks in Hungary and
Transylvania of the 16th century. The first volume's title page contains the following text:
Commentarii della guerra di Transilvania del signor Ascanio Centurio De Gli Hortensii. Ne quali si contengono tutte le cose, che succesero. Nell, ungheria dalla rotta del re Lodovico XII, sino all, anno MDLIII. Con la tavola delle cose degne di memoria... In Venegia appresso Gabriel
Ciolito de Ferrari MDLXVI. The title of the second volume is: La seconda parte de comentarii delle Guerre, et de succesi piu notabili, auvenuci cosi in Europa come in tutte
le parti del mondo dall, anno MDLIIII fino a tutto il MDLX . DEL SIGNOR ASCANIO CENTURIO DE GLI HORTENSII...IN VINETIA APRESSO GABRIEL GIOLITO DI FERARRA MDLXVIIIII. Bibliophile volume, printed in Latin, it has been preserved in whole, in two volumes.
The book binding is made of cardboard covers, wrapped in parchment, with the following title on the book spine: Comentarii
de la guerra Transilvanici. A printed ex libris can be found on the first cover, with the text: "Ex Bibliotheca
F.A. Lib. Bar. ab Ende". The book makes up a colligatum with two other works: Francesco Sansovino,
LA ISTORIA DE GLI IMPERATORI GRECI, Venice, 1562 (4 + 111 sheets) and Idem, HISTORIA
D,AITONE ARMENO DELLE PARTI DI LEVANTE, Venice, 1562 (32 sheets). The first volume of
COMMENTARII DELLA GUERRA DI TRANSILVANIA has 2 sheets + 266 pages + one sheet with an
engraving, and the second volume has 16 sheets + 298 pages. Original volume, maintained whole, drew up by Italian historian Hortensi. Material: cardboard, parchment, paper, textile fibres, printing inks.
Technique: printing, binding, cold-printing.
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