Peter Bichsel   Fine Books

(Piccolomini, Aenea Silvio al.) Pius II. Le histoire, costumi et successi della nobilissima provincia delli Boemi.

With woodcut printer’s device on title. 110, (2) leaves. 12mo. Modern vellum with ms. spine title. – Vinegia (Venice, Bartholomeo Imperatore), 1545.

First Italian translation of Enea Silvio Piccolomini’s (1405-1464; 1458 elected pope Pius II.) „Historia Bohemica“, first published in Rome in 1475. The author of this first translation of Piccolomini’s historic treatiese into a vernacular language is unknown. – EDIT 16 CNCE 40496. – Clean copy, rebound. – Best.-Nr. 27078