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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. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 000003
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