Author: COMAZZI ((Giovanni Battista):
Title: The Morals of Princes: or, An Abstract of the most Remarkable Passages Contained in the History Of all the Emperors Who Reign'd in Rome. With A Moral Reflection Draw from each Quotation. Written originally in Italian, By Count John Baptista Comazzi, Historiographer to his Imperial Majesty. Done into English By William Hatchett, Gent.
Description: London: Printed for T. Worrall..., 1729. FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION. 8vo, 194 x 120 mms., pp. xv, 391 [392 adverts], including list of subscriber, engraved frontispiece, title-page in red and black, later 18th century panelled calf, spine ornately gilt in compartments, red leather label; front joint amateurishly repaired Giovanni Battista Comazzi (1654 - 1711) published La morale dei principi osservata nell'istoria di tutti gl'imperadori, che regnarono in Roma in 1689. He was an Italian diplomat and court historian to the Hapsburg ruler Ferdinand III in Vienna, though he would later fall out of favour. The translator, William Hatchett (1701 – 1760s), was the parnter of Eliza Haywood (1693 – 1756), and was best-known for his translations of substantial French works: Jean-Paul Bignon's Les aventures d'Abdalla, fils d'Hanif (The Adventures of Abdalla, Son of Hanif) (1728), Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, Marquise de Lambert's Avis d'une mere à son fils et à sa fille (Advice from a mother to her son and daughter) (1728), and the present work. Haywood subscribed for two copies of this volume.

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