<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;">4to. f. [1] (blank), pp. [16], 222, [6], f. [1] (blank) (p. 213 called 113). Signatures: A-Z⁴ Aa-Ff⁴ Gg⁶. Calf. Gilded spine. Some pencil markings. Manuscript notes on pastedowns. Includes woodcuts: a large armorial title vignette on the title page, featuring the arms of the Monaldeschi family, the subject of Ceccarelli's history; a full-page illustration of five coats of arms on the last page; a printer's device on p. [5] at end, featuring the winged female figure of Fortune within oval ornamental cartouche, with motto "Instabilitas fortunae". Engraved initials, head- and tailpieces.</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 edition, the magnum opus of Carlo Sigonio’s model, if he needed one, the ill-fated Alfonso Ceccarelli, now best known for his study of tubers and truffles. Ceccarelli, a habitual forger of genealogies, culminating in the present work, was tried and executed in 1583 for creating and selling an unknown text (now vanished) of Julius Caesar’s ‘Anticatones’ to Giacomo Boncompagni, Duke of Sora and a son of Pope Gregory XIII. This manuscript perished early, perhaps because of Sigonio’s advice to the Duke to burn it, as ‘the composition of a pedant.’ The ‘Dell'historia di Casa Monaldesca’ was a family history written to uphold the territorial claims of the Monaldischis, and the only book printed by Angeli with the Ascoli imprint.</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;">See W. McCuaig, Carlo Sigonio. The changing world of the late Renaissance. Princeton, 1989; R. Bizzocchi, Genealogie incredibili: scritti di storia nell’Europa moderna. Rev. ed. Bologna, 2009. See also H. M. Adams, Catalogue of Books Printed on the Continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge Libraries. 2 vols. Cambridge, 1967, C1207. .</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/alma991039109429707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>