CAMPIGLIA (Alessandro)

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CAMPIGLIA (Alessandro)
Della turbulenze della Francia in vita del Re Henrico il Grande. Venice, Giorgio Valentini, 1617. In-4, red morocco, double gilt fillet, gilt monogram in the center of the boards, spine decorated with fillets and a repeated fleuron (flower), the title, author's name and date of the edition stamped in the second box, red speckled edges (Binding of the time). First edition. A work recounting the troubles and various political events that occurred during the reign of Henri IV, from his birth in 1553 to 1595, the year of his absolution by Pope Clement VIII who then consecrated him as the Most Christian king. The author, in his dedicatory epistle to king Louis XIII, tells that at the news of the assassination of Henri IV, the whole of Italy had melted into tears, and that he in particular, after having given himself up to his grief, had conceived the project of taking revenge for this crime, and, having no other means at his disposal, to make war with his pen on time and death (Hoefer). Nice typographical mark on the title, representing the Renommée chasing Death. A very fine copy by Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580-1637) who entrusted the binding to Simon Corberan, his regular bookbinder who lived in his private mansion in Aix-en-Provence. The monogram of Peiresc, which reproduces the four intertwined initials of his name in Greek, is gilt on the boards. The library of this great scholar and collector was famous in his time: most of his books are now kept in the Méjanes library, in Aix-en-Provence, and in the library of Châlons-sur-Marne, while his manuscripts are in the Inguimbertine library in Carpentras. Manuscript bookplate on the title of the Collège des jésuites de Paris. Manuscript bookplate on one endpaper: Questo libro appartiene a Giovanni Stutz. From the library of Henri Bonnasse (ex-libris). Small tear without missing and angular paper missing on f. A1. Some yellowed quires, stains in the margin of the title and the last leaves caused by the return of the skin of the back covers. Moisture mark on the first cover, very slight indentation in the skin on the second cover, small restoration to the top cover and to a spine.
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