Eseqvie fatte in Venetia dalla natione fiorentina al serenissimo d. Cosimo II qvarto gran dvca di Toscana il dì 25 di maggio j62j
Contributors: Valesio, Francesco, approximately 1560-; Esengren, Philipp, active 1594-1631; Ingoli, Matteo, 1585 or 87-1631
Publisher: Appresso il Ciotti
Published: 1621
Place of publication: In Venetia
Language: lat
Number of pages: 24
Subjects: Death and burial; Social life and customs; Early works to 1800; Funeral decorations; Funeral rites and ceremonies; Catafalques; Portraits
Notes: Signatures: A-M².

Leaves printed on both sides, including last leaf. All ill. printed on verso of text.

Includes oration by Giulio Strozzi, leaves [22]-24, with separate engraved t.p. on leaf [21] or L1: Oratione di Givlio Strozzi recitata da Lvi in Venetia nell'esequie del sereniss. d. Cosimo II. qvarto g. dvca di Toscana. fatte dalla natione fiorentina il dì 25. di maggio 1621. Stampata dal Ciotti. M.DC.XXI.

Woodcuts: historiated head-pieces and floriated initials.

Illustrations: eighteen engraved ill., one signed by Francesco Valeggio (sculp.) and Philipp Esengren (delineauit), including engraved t.-p., portrait of Cosimo II, the catafalque and other funeral decorations, and scenes from the life of the deceased after paintings by Matteo Ingoli (cf. Vinet), and an allegorical composition on E1 verso.

Vinet. Bibliographie...des beaux-arts, 609

Ruggieri. Catalogue, 1873, no. 777

In Italian, with Latin inscriptions.

Library's copy remargined: original pages, trimmed to 26 x 17 cm., are pasted on larger leaves. A separate pagination, continuous within the bound-with vol. counts leaves as 111-130, in ink by old hand.

Bound with: Racconto delle sontvose esseqvie (SPECIAL 94-B6733).