Title: Documenti raccolti dall' illustrissimo Sig. Canonico Niccolò Maria Lisci patrizio Volterrano Canonico della Primaziale di Pisa Intorno all’antichità Toscane di Curzio Inghirami
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;"> 8vo. f. [1] (blank), pp. vii, [i], 130, [1], [3] (blank). Contemporary vellum. Manuscript spine title, tear on upper spine, edges spread in red and blue. Pastedown with sun-shaped and letter "M" watermark . Manuscript marks in margins of pp. 15, 52, 86. Printers' device on title page. Engraved initials, head- and tailpieces.</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;">Work by Niccolò Maria Lisci, Curzio Inghirami’s first serious critic. Inghirami (1614-1655)  had created, buried in family land, and subsequently unearthed fragments of a chronicle of Etruscan Volterra written by one Prosperus Fesulanus in 60 BC. The fragments were in ‘Etruscan,’ a language conveniently unknown to any living scholar, and told the sad story of the Roman destruction of Etruria in 60 BC. See Bib# 3584558/Fr# 353 in this collection for Inghirami’s forgery.
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