Della scienza chiamata cavalleresca libri tre.
by Maffei, Francesco Scipione, 1675-1755
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- very good
- Condition
- Very Good
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Tuxedo Park, New York, United States
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About This Item
Venice: Luigi Pavino, 1716. Third edition. Very Good. Octavo (18 cm); [16], 417, [30] pages. Roman and italic type. One woodcut letter populated with figures. Freshly bound in full morocco with gilt title label. Original marbled endleaves. Edges stained red. Early owner's autograph on front blank. Occasional light blemishes on first and last leaves.
Masquerading as the umpty-umpth treatise on chivalry and dueling, this essay by the 18th-century Veronese polymath Scipione Maffei is in fact a radical step forward in political science. It sustains that qualities of virtue and nobility do not derive from birthrights or from family lineage, but are earned through professional skills and legal advancement based on merit.
Masquerading as the umpty-umpth treatise on chivalry and dueling, this essay by the 18th-century Veronese polymath Scipione Maffei is in fact a radical step forward in political science. It sustains that qualities of virtue and nobility do not derive from birthrights or from family lineage, but are earned through professional skills and legal advancement based on merit.
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- Bookseller
- Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6172
- Title
- Della scienza chiamata cavalleresca libri tre.
- Author
- Maffei, Francesco Scipione, 1675-1755
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Third edition
- Publisher
- Luigi Pavino
- Place of Publication
- Venice
- Date Published
- 1716
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Chivalry Duelling Meritocracy Nobility Military rank
- Bookseller catalogs
- The Long Eighteenth Century;
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...