Le Historie costumi et successi della nobilissima provincia delli Boemi composti da Pio II. Sommo Pontefice. Ne quali si contengono tutti li preclari gesti, & fatti loro dalla prima origine insino à tempi dell'authore. Nuovamente di latino in italiano tradotti, & con ogni studio, & somma diligenza impressi

8vo (143x93 mm). 110, [2] leaves. Collation: A-O⁸. Italic type. 18th-century stiff vellum, inked title on spine, sprinkled edges. Small loss of paper in the lower corner of l. F6 with some loss of text, some light foxing, a good copy.

First edition in Italian (the name of translator is not specified) of Enea Silvio Piccolomini's Historia Bohemica, first published in Rome in 1475. This is one of Piccolomini's most remarkable historical works, written shortly before he was elected pope in 1558, the result of his sojourn in Bohemia as papal legate in 1451. It is history of Bohemia from the origins to the Hussite period, based on the three 14^th-century Czech chronicles.

Edit 16, CNCE40496; Adams, P-1346.

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