Lot 422
  • 422

(Hatton, Sir Christopher) — Umberto Locati

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1,500 - 2,500 USD
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Description

  • Italia Travagliata Nouamente posta in luce, nella qual si contengono tutte le guerre, seditioni, pestilentie, & altri travagli... In Venezia, Daniel Zanetti, 1576
  • Ink, paper, cow
4to (8 x 6 in.; 205 x 150 mm).Publisher's devise and woodcut vignette. Contemporary vellum with gilt medallion with Sir Christopher Hatton's initials on both sides. 

Provenance

Sir Christopher Hatton (gilt initials on binding) — Duke of Devonshire with the Chatsworth book label.

Catalogue Note

First edition. Beautiful copy from the library of Elizabeth I's Lord Chancellor, Sir Christopher Hatton. Carlo Segrè, in The Fortnighly Review (Vol. 90, July to December 1911, p. 916), points out that Locati's Italia Travagliata may have been one of the sources used by Shakespeare for Othello and The Merchant of Venice