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[HISTORY] - War and Words: Pontano’s Humanist Chronicle of Naples - PONTANO Giovanni (1426 - 1503) - Giovanni Pontano, De bello neapolitano et de sermone. Naples, Sigismund Mayr, 1509. Folio (310×220 mm); 55 of 56 leaves (G8 blank missing). Bound in a reused vellum leaf from a medieval antiphonary. Marginal waterstains. Good copy. First edition of a humanist chronicle on the Neapolitan war and reflections on rhetoric and history.