[The  Historie of Italie
Subtitle: a boke excedyng profitable to be redde: Because it intreateth of the astate of many and divers common weales, how thei have ben, & now be governed
By: [By William Thomas]... ].
Published: 1549
Place of publication: Imprinted at London in Fletestrete in the House of Thomas Berthelet. Cum privilegio ad imprimendum solum. Anno Domini. 1549
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
Notes: H&L describes the author as a'native of Wales, educated at Oxford'; the DNB records him as an Italian scholar and clerk of the council to Edward VI; the present work is said to have been 'suppressed and publicly burnt', but it was twice reprinted , in 1561 and 1562.

Printed in Gothic black letter; decorated capitals; running titles.

STC 24018.