Pietro Bizzari (7 results)

Folio. ):(4, A-3G6, 3H4, 3I-3K6, 3L4. Pagination: [8], 644, [32] pp. Wechel's Pegasus device on title page and verso of last printed leaf, head-piece, historiated and decorated initials. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments with floral and acorn design, raised bands, gilt title on dark red leather label, edges marbled in blue, marbled endpapers; small hole in lower compartment, some light wear, some light paper toning, a very pleasing copy. Second expanded edition. The 1601 edition is an expanded version of the work. It begins with Bizzari's treatise on the Persian people, their institutions, foreign policy, costumes, etc. It is followed by an excerpt from Photius' summary of Clesias' history of Persia (pp. 349-360); Henricus Porsius' history of the war between Murad III and Mehemetem; an oration to Pope Innocent III by Philippus Callimachus (15th century) on the Turkish war and Venice (pp.371-399; 400-431); and other materials (p. 433+) which take the history of the Persian war to 1588. / "Pietro Bizzarri [Bizari], (born 1525/30?, died in or after 1586), historian and spy. . . Bizzarri became associated with the court of Mary Stuart, and in the hope of acquiring the patronage of the Scottish queen as well he presented to her a Latin treatise, De bello et pace. . . Bizzarri began his lifelong career as an intelligencer, passing political and diplomatic information to Cecil. Although there is no clear evidence, it is possible that Bizzarri had been [employed] at the Scottish court as an agent, and that it was Cecil who encouraged him to settle in Venice to collect and transmit information at a time when no Venetian ambassador was resident in England. . . Bizzarri travelled widely in Germany, but by January 1578 he was established in Antwerp, where he frequented the circle of the printer Christopher Plantin. . . In 1583 appeared his Persian history, Rerum Persicarum historia, dedicated to August of Saxony, although two presentation copies were also sent to England: one for the queen and one for Walsingham . . ." [Oxford DNB]. / Much of Barbaro's information about the Kipchak Khanate, Persia, and Georgia is not found in any other sources. -- Biographie universelle, ancienne et moderne, J Fr Michaud; Louis Gabriel Michaud, Paris, Michaud, 1811-28, p. 327. REFERENCES: VD17 23:231248Y; BL (German) 17th. c. B1503; Graesse I, 433; Brunet I, 955. TITLE: Rerum Persicarum Historia, Initia Gentis, Mores, instituta, resque gestas ad haec usque tempora complectens. . . Cui accessit Brevis ac vera Henrici Porsii de bello inter Murathem III. .Philippi Callimachi Experientis de bello Turcis. . . Et Appendix. . . Jacobus Geuderus. . . In ea Josephii Barbari Et Ambrosii Contareni Legatorum Reipub. Venetae Itineraria Persica: Johannes Thomae Minado I belli Turco-Persici historia. . .…

Vellum. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Folio (22 x 33 cm). Original limp vellum lettered to the spine. Back cover browned. Complete with 644 pages. Large paper copy. Internally slightly spotted in places. Very good antiquarian condition overall. Bizzari (1525-1586) was an Italian historian and spy. Converting to Protestantism, he left Venice for Germany and then England, where he was admitted as a fellow to St John's college in Cambridge. In 1570, Bizzari obtained a license from Sir William Cecil, Elizabeth I's spymaster, to travel abroad and report news of foreign events. He travelled to Genoa, Saxony, Antwerp (where he became part of the scholarly circle around Christoper Plantin), Leyden, and Antwerp. Bizzari's 'Rerum Persicarum' provides a valuable history of the Turkish and Persian Empires from ancient times. This history is followed by valuable accounts by Callimachus (on the war of the Turks), Henri Porsi (the wars of the Persians), Tommaso Minado (on the war between the Persinas and the Turks), Josaphat Barbaro (travels in Crimea and other provinces), and Ambrose Contarini (travels in Persia). The second edition, as presented here, contains much additional material not included in the first edition published in 1583. Very scarce. Atabey's comprehensive collection on the Ottoman World includes this second 1601 edition only. Not in the Blackmer collection on Greece and the Levant.…

Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 220.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1766 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 227 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 227.…

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1568 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 243 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 243.…

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1573 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 339 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 339.…

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1573 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 805 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 805.…