Milan, Giovanni Battista Bidelli, 1625. In 8°. Chalcographic title page engraved with portrait of the author by Giovanni Paolo Bianchi, coeval rigid parchment binding with title on the spine, damaged.
Specialist Notes
Giovanni Andrea Alciato or Alciati (Milan, 8 May 1492 - Pavia, 12 January 1550) was an Italian jurist and teacher, born in the Duchy of Milan. While still a student, he collected a large part of the Latin epigraphic inscriptions that make up the two books of his Monumentorum veterumque inscriptionum, quae cum Mediolani tum in eius agro adhuc exstant collectanea, work that he considered necessary for the drafting, which he was doing, of a history of Milan from origins in his time, but which was interrupted in the reign of Valentinian and was published posthumously in 1625 in Milan with the title of Rerum Patriae libri IV.
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