![- MASCARDI (Agostino). The Conjuration of the Count of Fiesque, translated from the Italian (...) by the Sr. de Fontenai Ste Geneviève, and dedicated to Monseigneur the eminent Cardinal Duke of Richelieu. With a collection of verses to the praise of His Ducal Eminence. Paris, Jean Camusat, 1639, in-8, [37] ff. n. ch. (title, dedication, introductory poems, prefaces by the printer and the author), 206 pp. one f. n. of privilege, two leaves of the poems were bound by mistake between ff. iij and iiij of the dedication, soft vellum, smooth spine (contemporary binding). A good copy. First edition of the French translation. It is this work by the writer Agostino Mascardi (1590-1640), published in 1629 at the address of Antwerp under the title of La Congiura del conte Giovanni Luigi di Fieschi, which later inspired Cardinal de Retz to write his Conjuration du comte de Fiesque, of 1665. The typically Italian controversies that soon arose over the role attributed by Mascardi to Cardinal Agostino Trivulzio in the plot were not exported to France. Cioranescu, XVII, 30697.](https://cdn.drouot.com/d/lot/fullHD/6/115165/e43af5eee3b6afefd7aa020837dbd673)
- MASCARDI (Agostino). The Conjuration of the Count of Fiesque, translated from the Italian (...) by the Sr. de Fontenai Ste Geneviève, and dedicated to Monseigneur the eminent Cardinal Duke of Richelieu. With a collection of verses to the praise of His Ducal Eminence. Paris, Jean Camusat, 1639, in-8, [37] ff. n. ch. (title, dedication, introductory poems, prefaces by the printer and the author), 206 pp. one f. n. of privilege, two leaves of the poems were bound by mistake between ff. iij and iiij of the dedication, soft vellum, smooth spine (contemporary binding). A good copy. First edition of the French translation. It is this work by the writer Agostino Mascardi (1590-1640), published in 1629 at the address of Antwerp under the title of La Congiura del conte Giovanni Luigi di Fieschi, which later inspired Cardinal de Retz to write his Conjuration du comte de Fiesque, of 1665. The typically Italian controversies that soon arose over the role attributed by Mascardi to Cardinal Agostino Trivulzio in the plot were not exported to France. Cioranescu, XVII, 30697.
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- MASCARDI (Agostino). The Conjuration of the Count of Fiesque, translated from the Italian (...) by the Sr. de Fontenai Ste Geneviève, and dedicated to Monseigneur the eminent Cardinal Duke of Richelieu. With a collection of verses to the praise of His Ducal Eminence. Paris, Jean Camusat, 1639, in-8, [37] ff. n. ch. (title, dedication, introductory poems, prefaces by the printer and the author), 206 pp. one f. n. of privilege, two leaves of the poems were bound by mistake between ff. iij and iiij of the dedication, soft vellum, smooth spine (contemporary binding). A good copy. First edition of the French translation. It is this work by the writer Agostino Mascardi (1590-1640), published in 1629 at the address of Antwerp under the title of La Congiura del conte Giovanni Luigi di Fieschi, which later inspired Cardinal de Retz to write his Conjuration du comte de Fiesque, of 1665. The typically Italian controversies that soon arose over the role attributed by Mascardi to Cardinal Agostino Trivulzio in the plot were not exported to France. Cioranescu, XVII, 30697.
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