ZACCHIA DA VEZZANO, Laudivo (secolo XV) - Lettere del Gran Mahumeto imperatore de turchi. Venice: Giolito, 1563.

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Lot 201 | ZACCHIA DA VEZZANO, Laudivo (secolo XV) - Lettere del Gran Mahumeto imperatore de turchi. Venice: Giolito, 1563.
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ZACCHIA DA VEZZANO, Laudivo (secolo XV) - Lettere del Gran Mahumeto imperatore de turchi. Venice: Giolito, 1563.

First Italian edition, translated by Ludovico Dolce, of these Turkish epistles attributed to Mehmet II, but in reality a literary invention by Laudivio Zacchia. The writings are intended to represent the correspondence between Mohammed II, conqueror of Constantinople and Byzantium, and the governors of Persia, Greece, Italy and the Mediterranean islands, highlighting their ambition and showing the political and ethical differences between the Christian and Muslim world.

8vo (150 x 100mm). Printer's device on title, engraved initials and headpieces (small wormtrack on upper outer corner of the central leaves, heavier between C2-G2, without loss of text, light occsaional spotting). 18th-century vellum with manuscript title, marbled endpapers.
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