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189
Pagent Books
NYC. Dec. 84
$7.50
(Biondo, Flavio)Blondus, Flavius (Latin) with 88 forli (1392-1463 - Rome)
Historiarum ab inclinatione Romanorum imperii decades.
Venice: Octavianus Scotus, 16 July 1483 folio.
N.B: Addiona by Johannus A. Campanus
Ref: Goff B 698 HC 3248 BMC V 277 GW 4419.
Cop: HEHL, Harv CL. Liber II (errov) (VI)
Becadis Secundae
372 leaves, the 1st blank, 3a:421. + headline, 222(229)x149
(with marginalia 174)mm.
Types: 106 Ra; 106 Rb. Capital spaces
The 1st appearance of these types is in the Livy (1481),
the headlines of which are made up of capitals from both/
In use 1481-84.

An Ordo compendii Curiae of 1479 is the earliest book
which can be connected with the press of Scotus. After 1464 he
seems to have been a publisher only.
U. Scotus, of Monza, new Milan: d. Christmas Eve 1498.

Blondus -an Italian antiquery + historian. -humanist historian of the Renaissance + author of the 1st
history of Italy that developed a definite chronoligical scheme providing
an embryonic notion of the Middle Ages. Historiarum ... written
from 1439 to 1453. "Decades of History from the Deterioration of the
Roman Empire" 2 greatist works 1) Italia illustrata 2) Historiarum
- the 32 books were a comprehensive treatment of both Europe
+ Christendom from the sack of Rome by the Goths in AD 410,
to the rise of Italian cities + renewal of Italian dignity +
glory up to 1442. A careful + critical work based on the
most reliable sources, the Historiarum provided a definite
chronological scheme between Ancient Rome + Biondo's
own time + influenced the later notion of a 1000 yrs. period
of the Middle Ages. The work was consulted by Niccolo
Machiavelli in his analysis of Italy's disunity.