Scena d'huomeni illustri d'Europa /
del co. Galeazzo Gualdo Priorato, conosciuti da lui singolari per nascita, per virtù, e per fortuna.

Description

Main Author

Gualdo Priorato, Galeazzo, conte, 1606-1678.

Related Names

Cungi, Camillo, -approximately 1649.
Beverenzi, Nicasio, 17th cent.
Georgi, Giovanni, active 1617-1656.
Piccini, Giacomo, approximately 1617-approximately 1669.
Eredi di Giovanni Battista Coiro.

Language(s)

Italian

Published

In Augusta [Turin?] : Appresso li eredi di Gio. Battista Coiro, 1658.

Subjects

Italy > Italy / Biography > Italy / Biography / Portraits > Italy / Biography / Portraits / Early works to 1800.
Italy > Italy / Biography > Italy / Biography / Early works to 1800.
Coats of arms > Coats of arms / Italy > Coats of arms / Italy / 17th century.
Engravings (prints) > Engravings (prints) / Italy > Engravings (prints) / Italy / 17th century.

Note

Frontispiece coat of arms and full-page port. of Alessandro Farnese, prince of Parma, to whom the work is dedicated. Some of the 30 ports. that follow are signed by Giacomo Piccini or Giovanni Georgi, one each by Nicasio Beverenzi and C.C. (Camillo Cungi?).
Biographies in Getty copy not bound in alphabetical order.
Unsigned and unpaged, to allow for integration of additional entries. Biographies were to be arranged alphabetically by first letter of subject's forename, which appears in headline. See Cicognara.
BM lists 2 variants of this work. The "First series" was published in Augusta, 1658, like the present work, but has title: Scena d'alcuni huomini illustri d'Italia. The "Second series" was published in Venice, 1659, and has title: Scena d'huomini illustri d'Italia. All subjects in the present work are Italian, despite the title.

Physical Description

[374] p. (1st & last blank) : coats of arms, ports. (engravings) ; 26 cm. (4to)

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