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ALCYONIUS, PETRUS. Medices legatus de exsilio. 1522

ALCYONIUS, PETRUS. Medices legatus de exsilio. [70] leaves, including blanks e7-8. 8vo, 19th-century red morocco with gilt Aldine device on covers, spine ends and raised bands rubbed; contents unobtrusively washed with some light residual soiling, foxing, and early marginalia, faded early scored inscription on title, 19th-century owner's notes on front endleaves. Arthur Edwin Neergaard bookplate. (Venice: Aldine press, November 1522)

  • Notes: first edition of an imaginary dialogue on the subject of exile, set in 1512 and conducted by Giovanni and Giulio de'' Medici (later Popes Leo X and Clement VII), who were then exiled from Florence, with their nephew Lorenzo. Renouard, page 95.
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