[Italy] Francesco Guicciardini. Histoire des guerres d'Italie,

composée par M. François Guichardin (...) & traduite d'Italien en François, par Hierosme Chomedey (...). Nouvelle edition. diligemment reveue & corrigée, à laquelle ont estée adioustees les observations politiques, militaires et morales du sieur de la Nove. (...). (Geneva), E. Vignon, 1593, 2 vols., (4),403,(36 index); 379,(23 index) lvs., both vols. w. diff. printer's mark on title-p., 17th cent. unif. overlapping vellum.

Both vols. waterst. in upper half, but a good copy. Adams 1526. Francesco Guicciardini (1483 - 1540), Italian historian and statesman, friend and critic of Niccolò Machiavelli. He is considered one of the major political writers of the Italian Renaissance. His Storia d'Italia was first published 1537-1540.