Lettere del Gran Mahumeto Imperadore de’ Turchi
Subtitle: scritte a diversi re, prencipi, signori, e republiche, con le risposte loro; ridotte nella volgar lingua da M. Lodovico Dolce. Insieme con le lettere di Falaride Tiranno degli Agrigentini
Publisher: Appresso Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari
Published: 1563
Place of publication: Venice
Language: ita
Number of pages: 202
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">12mo. pp. 192. Early limp vellum, title page inscribed ‘Ex bibli[othe]ca Altemps[ia]na’, i.e., from the widely dispersed library of Giovanni Angelo Altemps (d. 1620).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">First Italian translation of Zacchia’s inventions (see Bib# 4102799/Fr# 305 in this collection), the imaginary correspondence between Mehmed II and his governors, and to and from European leaders, paired with the suppositious letters of Phalaris. The authenticity of the former is not questioned, but the preface notes that Erasmus did not consider the latter to be genuine. See J. E. Coleman, ‘Forging Relations between East and West’, in W. Stephens &amp; E. Havens (eds.), Literary forgery in early modern Europe, 1450-1800, Baltimore, 2018, pp., pp. 118–34, esp. 133, n. 10.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/permalink/01JHU_INST/1lu78g9/alma991008551729707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>