Author: Leti, Gregorio
Title: De minnerye van Messalina, onlangs koninginne van Albion, Waar inne kortelijk zijn neder gesteld de secreten en geheimnissen van 't bedrog omtrent den prins van Cambrion
Description: By Een vrouwe van qualiteyt, en onlangs gewese vertrouweling van de koninginne Messalina [= Gregorio Leti?] Haarlem, Johannes van Veen, op de Markt, 1689. Naar de copie van London gedrukt voor Jan Lyford, 1689. Four parts in one volume. Vol.1: Title page [2], 4-28pp; Vol. 2,3,4: title page, [2] 5-74 pp. Marbled wrappers (missing a piece, tears). last pages dogeared, pages a bit browned but a complete copy. See: Knuttel 13221, 13222, Tiele 8844 en 8845 l Presumably the author of Messalina is the Italian historican and satirist Gregori Leti, who died in Amsterdam in 1701. Charles II of England commissioned him to write a history of England. When he offended the king with an collection of anecdotes he fled England in 1683 and went to Amsterdam, where he became the historiographer of the city.

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