16th century marriage of a Habsburg princess to a Medici prince
Principi di casa d'Austria progenitori della serenissima principessa di Fiorenza et di Siena.
Venice, o. Dr. , [1565?]
18 ff with large woodcut armorial vignette to title. Marbled half cloth ca. 1800. Marbled edges. Coloured endpapers. 4to.
€ 600.00
Only edition of this Festschrift (dated 30th December 1565 at rear) for the Emperor's daughter, Johanna von Österreich (1547-78), who had married Francesco I de' Medici exactly two weeks previously. The scholar Francesco Sansovino (1521-83) celebrated the Renaissance princess and Grand Duchess of Tuscany by enumerating her worthy ancestral lineage, which he traced back to the Frankish King Childebert.
Rare; only 4 copies located in Italy by Edit 16.
References
Edit 16, CNCE 47731. Adams S 362. BM-STC Italian 608.
