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[HISTORY] - Alcibiades & Coriolanus: Philosophy in Political Biography - MALVEZZI Virgilio (1595 - 1654) - MALVEZZI, Virgilio (1595-1654). Considerationi con occasione d’alcuni luoghi delle vite d’Alcibiade, e di Coriolano. Le fece il Marchese Virgilio Malvezzi del Consiglio supremo di Guerra di sua Maestà Cattolica. E le dedica al Re suo Sig.re. [Segue:] Il Coriolano del Marchese Virgilio Malvezzi al Molto Reverendo Padre Sforza Pallavicino […] Bologna, eredi di Evangelista Dozza, 1648. Two parts in one volume, 4to (197x157 mm). [8], 98, [2: errata]; [8], 56 pp. Pages 93-96 of part 1 are misbound and wrongly placed between pp. 52-53 of part 2. First title page fully engraved (“Il Coriolano F.”), woodcut printer’s device on title page of part 2. Printing data from title page of part 2. Contemporary cardboards “alla rustica”, inked title on lower edge. Stamp of the Fürstenberg library at Donaueschingen on title page. Some light scattered foxing, one gathering loose, otherwise a fresh copy. First edition in this format (in the same year the Dozza’s heirs published an edition in 24mo) of these twin biographies of Alcibiades, the Athenian statesman, and Coriolanus, the Roman General, by the Bolognese historian, soldier, and diplomat Virgilio Malvezzi. (1)