La historia d'Italia ...
Subtitle: nuouamente rescontrata con tutti gli altri historici & auttori, che dell'istesse cose habbiano scritto: & ornata in margine con l'annotationi de' riscontri fatti da Thomaso Porcacchi da Castiglione Arretino. Con un Guidicio fatto dal medesimo, per discoprir tutte le bellezze di questa Historia: & una Raccolta di tutte le sententie sparse per l'opera: et con due tauole: una de gli auttori citati in margine; & l'altra delle cose notabili
By: ... di M. Francesco Guicciardini Gentil'huomo Fiorentino ...
Contributors: Porcacchi, Thomaso, ca. 1530-1585?; Porcacchi, Thomaso, ca. 1530-1585?; Adams, John, 1735-1826, former owner; John Adams Library (Boston Public Library)
Publisher: Appresso Giorgio Angelieri
Published: 1574
Place of publication: In Venetia
Language: ita
Number of pages: 488
Subjects: History
Notes: Signatures: a⁸, b⁴, A-C, a-b, A-Z, Aa-Zz, Aaa-Ppp⁸.

Many errors in numbering.

"Giudicio di Thomaso Porcacchi da Castiglione Arretino sopra l'Historia di M. Francesco Gvicciardini" (with separate title-page): 16 numb. leaves at beginning.

Printer's device on the title page; title page and final leaf of the Giudicio da Castiglione Arretino.

Head-pieces; tail-pieces; initials.

Introductory material and the Tommaso Porcacchio item are in a lined border with ornamental head- and tail-pieces.

John Adams library copy has former owners' signature crossed through on t.p. (not Adams').

John Adams Library copy has bookplate: John Adams Library, in the Custody of the Boston Public Library.

Includes index.

With final errata leaf.

The first edition of this work was published in Florence in 1561 and contained sixteen books only; the last four were not printed until 1564. The present copy is a reissue of the first edition (BM STC Italian, 1465-1600).

The John Adams Library copy is bound with all twenty books: libros 1-16 cover the years 1490-1526; libros 17-20 cover the years 1526-1532. The last four books have separate pagination.

BM STC Italian, 1465-1600, p. 320-321

John Adams Library copy transferred from the supervisors of the Temple and School Fund. Quincy, Mass., 1894.