Fantini (Girolamo)

Sucessi di Roma, et di tutta l’Italia, only edition, 12 leaves, large woodcut vignette on title page, 1 woodcut illustration, minor spotting and slight worming to gutter of central leaves, early ownership signature on title page (“Di Giovanni Davidi da Colle”), leaves just shaved at foot, first leaves loose, later marbled wrapper, [Cicogna 323; Gollner I, 516; not in Blackmer], small 4to, n.p., Rome, n.d. [1535?]

***Rare edition. The work contains two letters of Fantini concerning the illness and death of pope Clemens VII and the accession to the papal throne of Paul III, as well as Barbarossa's incursion on the Lazio coasts where he also attempted to kidnap Giulia Gonzaga. Nothing is known about the author.