Politics. GUICCIARDINI – LOTTINI – SANSOVINO. Propositioni, ouero Considerationi in materia di cose di stato.

4to; 220x155mm. Marbled boards binding, gilt titles on label on spine. Leaves [8], 156. Woodcut Guicciardini portrait on full page, on verso of leaf (*8). Woodcut initials and ornaments. Sign of wear at the binding, inside good conditions.

Collection, edited by Francesco Sansovino, of the political thoughts of famous humanist thinkers such as Guicciardini, Lottini and himself. The three parts are preceded by biographical notes on the authors, where great consideration is given to Guicciardini, as eminent historian, and to his work  “Avvertimenti politici”. Lottini's erudition, a follower of Machiavelli and Guicciardini, is instead exalted, reiterating the undeserved persecution he suffered for ideological reasons and for his writings suspected of heresy. Of himself, Sansovino declares to have "put together the present political concepts" taking them from ancient authors and synthesizing them for his own use and that of the reader.

Adams G1532; Gamba 1495: "Pregevole edizione, dal Sansovino dedicata a Guglielmo Parry, nobile britanno"; Brunet V, 130.