Author: BATE (George):
Title: Ristretto Delli Moti Moderni d'Inghilterra, Con vn breue Racconto Delle Ragioni del Rè, e del Parlamento. Tradotto dal Latino in Italiano dal Dottor Gio: Batt: Birago Auogadro Cutadin Venetiano. All'Illustriss. & Eccellentiss. Sig. Giovanni Pesaro, Caualier e Procurator di S. Marco.
Description: In Venetia, Presso il Turrini, 1652. 12mo, 139 x 68 mms., pp. 221 [222 - 227 adverts, 228 blank], engraved Turrini vignette of a tower on its summit, with an angel playing a trumpet, out of which comes a scroll with the motto, "Deus et Fortitudo turis sic mea," contained within a frame, on title-page, contemporary vellum; some slight browning of text in first few leaves, with occasional stain, but a very good copy. The "Lettore" preceding the title-page is signed "Teodoro Veridico," the pseudonym that George Bate (1608 - 1668), the apologist for Charles I and later physician to Oliver Cromwell. The work, or at least the first part, appeared in Paris (but printed in London by William Dugard) in 1649 in Latin, Elenchus motuum nuperorum in Anglia. The English version, A Compendious Narrative of the Late Troubles in England, was published in London in 1652. This Italian translation from the Latin original is dedicated to Giovanni Pesaro (1589 - 1658), the 103rd Doge of Venice. The work was also published in Bologna the same year, with a different vignette on the title-page. F. F. Madan, in his "A Bibliography of George Bate's Elenchus Motuum Nuperorum in Anglia" (The Library [1951], no. 9) records the above imprint but not the one for Bologna, which would appear to be the sheets of the Turrini Press, with a cancel title-page. This Italian translation from the Turrini press, is uncommon, with OCLC locating only two copies, Bibliotheque Nationale de France and Newberry Library

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