Dal Pozzo, Tractatus de re militari, Milan, 1509

Paride dal Pozzo

Solennis et utilis tractatus de re militari: ubi est tota materia duelli et singularis certaminis noviter compilatus. Milan: Alessandro Minuziano for Giovanni Giacomo and brothers De Legnano, 1509

folio (388 x 272mm.), woodcut printer's device on title-page, alum-tawed skin over pasteboard, stubs of two pairs of alum-tawed ties, occasional light damp-staining or browning

RARE. Edit16 records just two copies of this edition, in Trento and Venice (USTC also records a copy in Seville).

Paride dal Pozzo (1410-1493) was a Neapolitan jurist whose treatise on duelling was first printed in Naples in around 1476-1477. He considered duelling to be integral to chivalric codes of behaviour, for which he needed to justify the legitimacy of war itself. His work also appears in Castillo's work on duelling (see lot 70).

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"1523 25 febr. Codicem hunc Spectabilis matrona domina Caterina relicta quondam comitis Camisane et Gambarane quondam Francisci artium quidem et medicinae doctoris humanarum vero scientiarum doctissimi donavit mihi fratri Angelo Richiardino theologiae professori in compensationem aliorum librorum comodatorum eidem domino dum ob suspitionem pestis in rure moraretur, et ea ratione combustorum", manuscript note on a1; D. Gaspar Cavalli Benedictini, inscription on flyleaf