Description: LE VITE DI TUTTI GL'IMPERADORI COMPOSTE DAL NOBILE CAVALIERE PIETRO MESSIA ET DA M. LODOVICO DOLCEIn Vinegia: Apresso Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari; 1560Lacks title page, first 4 leaves are repaired, couple of damaged pages, occasional foxing.Otherwise good condition1054 pp plus extensive table of content (at the front)Size 6 by 8.5"Full vellum, manuscript title & date (1558) at the spineWith bookplate :Ex libris Comitis Alexandri Ab HubnerText in Italian===================================Joseph Alexander von Hubner (1811-1892) Diplomat and writer born in Vienna on 26 November 1811. His real name was Hafenbredl, which he later changed to Hubner. He was first secretary to the Austrian ambassador in Lisbon and then elected consul in Leipzig.In 1848 he was in Milan and during the Five Days' Uprising he was kidnapped as a hostage and remained a prisoner for several months. Returning to Austria he was appointed ambassador to France and in 1865 to the Holy See: it was he who negotiated the abolition of the Concordat of 1855. He also held the position of Minister of Police in the Rechberg cabinet and in 1879 he became a life member of the House of Lords. As a writer he composed autobiographical texts relating to the years 1848-1859 and published various volumes dedicated to his long travels entitled Promenade autour du monde and A travers l'Empire britannique . He also wrote a work in three volumes on the figure of Pope Sixtus V and in Italian printed in Rome in 1859 La monarchia austriaca dopo Villafranca . See: G. Valbert, M. le comte Alexandre de Hubner et ses souvenirs de 1848, «Revue des Deux Mondes», CVI, 1891 (p. 695-706); The encyclopaedia Britannica, a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information, XIII, 1911, p. 846; Enciclopedia italiana di scienze, lettere ed arti , XVIII, 1933, p. 579.================================ Powered by SixBit's eCommerce Solution
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Topic: Royalty
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Language: Italian
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Year Printed: 1560
