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ACCOLTI, BENEDETTO. La Guerra fatta da Christiani contra Barbari per la Ricuperatione del Christo et della Giudea. 127, [1] leaves. 8vo, modern boards with yapp edges, spine darkened; occasional minor marginal soiling and foxing. Venice: Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, 1549
first edition in italian of a history of the First Crusade written by a Florentine humanist (1415-66) to encourage a campaign against the Ottomans. First published in 1532 in Latin, Accolti's work was supposedly a source for Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata.
