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ALCYONIUS, PETRUS. Medices legatus de exsilio. [70] leaves, including blanks e7-8. 8vo, 211x129 mm, early 19th-century red morocco with gilt Aldine device on covers, spine darkened; restoration in blank upper margin of title, small dampstain in blank outer margin of colophon leaf, contents otherwise a clean wide-margined copy. (Venice: House of Aldus and Andrea Asolano, November 1522)
first edition of an imaginary dialogue on the subject of exile, set in 1512 and conducted by Giovanni and Giulio de' Medici (later Popes Leo X and Clement VII), who were then exiled from Florence, with their nephew Lorenzo. Renouard, page 95. With the Syston Park and monogram bookplates of Sir John Hayford Thorold, and later bookplate of Alfred R. Austrian.
