FRESCHOT, Casimir. - Idea generale del regno d'Ungheria, sua descrittione, costumi, regi, eguerre; con i motiui dell'ultima solleuatione, inuasione de' Turchi, assedio, e liberatione di Vienna, e progressi dell' armi christiane. Al reuerendissimo D. Pietro Sagredo.

Venetia, Lorenzo Marchesini, 1684.12mo. Contemporary vellum. With woocut title-vignette and initials. (22),356 pp.First edition. - An interesting work on the history, civilization and rulers of Hungary, as well as comments on the Turkish invasion and the sieg and liberation of Vienna. Casimir Freschot (1640 - 1720) was a French historian and chronicler. He was the author of about fifty works in French , Italian and Latin, the most notable being Origine, progressi e ruina del calvinismo nella Francia, ragguaglio istorico di D. Casimiro Freschot (1693) and Histoire du congrès et de la paix d'Utrecht (1716). Born in Morteau around 1640, he became a novice in the benedictine Saint-Maur congregation, and was ordained on March 20, 1663 in the Saint-Vincent de Besançon monastery. In 1674 he moved to Italy, joining the benedictine congregation in Montecassino. Around 1700 he returned to the lay state and moved to Utrecht, where he earned a living teaching literature and history. Having returned to France, Freschot was reintegrated as a monk in the Saint-Vanne congregation in 1718 and died in 1720, in the Abbey of Luxeuil .Sturminger 1281; not in Blackmer, Attabey or Apponyi.

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