Title: Lettere del Gran Mahumeto Imperadore de’ Turchi
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;">12mo. pp. 192. Early limp vellum, title page inscribed ‘Ex bibli[othe]ca Altemps[ia]na’, i.e., from the widely dispersed library of Giovanni Angelo Altemps (d. 1620).</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;">First Italian translation of Zacchia’s inventions (see Bib# 4102799/Fr# 305 in this collection), the imaginary correspondence between Mehmed II and his governors, and to and from European leaders, paired with the suppositious letters of Phalaris. The authenticity of the former is not questioned, but the preface notes that Erasmus did not consider the latter to be genuine. See J. E. Coleman, ‘Forging Relations between East and West’, in W. Stephens &amp; E. Havens (eds.), Literary forgery in early modern Europe, 1450-1800, Baltimore, 2018, pp., pp. 118–34, esp. 133, n. 10.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/permalink/01JHU_INST/1lu78g9/alma991008551729707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>