Il ritratto del vero governo del prencipe dal l'essempio vivo del gran Cosimo de' Medici
By: Composto da Lvcio Paolo Rosello Padoano, ; con due orationi d'Isocrate conformi all'istessa materia, tradotte dal medesimo di greco in uolgare italiano
Contributors: Cosimo I, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1519-1574
Publisher: [Per Giovan-Maria Bonelli.] Al segno del pozzo
Published: 1552
Place of publication: In Vinegia
Language: ita
Number of pages: 107
Description: The Ritratto is composed of three sections: first, a dialogue on the virtues, education, and conduct of the ideal prince; second, a discussion of the arms vs. letters debate; and finally, Rosello's Italian translations of two orations by Isocrates to Nicocles, the king of Cyprus (leaves 85-103); see Paul Dover's review, "Il ritratto del vero governo del Prencipe (1552): edizione critica a cura di Matteo Salvetti," Renaissance quarterly 61, no. 4 (Winter 2008): 1220-1222.
Notes: Printer's name from colophon.

Colophon: In Vinegia, per Giovan-Maria Bonelli. MDLII.

Leaves 18, 20, 21, 22, and 24 misnumbered 20, 18, 22, 24, 22.

Title vignette, initials. Text in italics.

Adams, H.M. Catalogue of books printed on the continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge libraries, R781