Scena d'huomeni illustri d'Europa
By: del co. Galeazzo Gualdo Priorato, conosciuti da lui singolari per nascita, per virtù, e per fortuna
Contributors: Piccini, Giacomo, approximately 1617-approximately 1669; Georgi, Giovanni, active 1617-1656; Beverenzi, Nicasio, active 17th century; Cungi, Camillo, -approximately 1649; Eredi di Giovanni Battista Coiro
Publisher: Appresso li eredi di Gio. Battista Coiro
Published: 1658
Place of publication: In Augusta [Turin?]
Language: ita
Number of pages: 374
Subjects: Biography; Early works to 1800; Portraits
Other titles: Scena d'hvomeni illvstri d'Evropa; Scena d'uomini illustri d'Europa; Scena d'huomeni illustri d'Europa del co. Galeazzo Gualdo Priorato; Scena d'alcuni huomini illustri d'Italia.; Scena d'huomini illustri d'Italia.
Notes: BM lists 2 variants of this work. The "First series" was published in Augusta, 1658, like the present work, but has title: Scena d'alcuni huomini illustri d'Italia. The "Second series" was published in Venice, 1659, and has title: Scena d'huomini illustri d'Italia. All subjects in the present work are Italian, despite the title.

Unsigned and unpaged, to allow for integration of additional entries. Biographies were to be arranged alphabetically by first letter of subject's forename, which appears in headline. See Cicognara.

Frontispiece coat of arms and full-page port. of Alessandro Farnese, prince of Parma, to whom the work is dedicated. Some of the 30 ports. that follow are signed by Giacomo Piccini or Giovanni Georgi, one each by Nicasio Beverenzi and C.C. (Camillo Cungi?).

BM 93, col. 565

Cicognara, L.  Libri d'arte, 2039