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LANDI, GIULIO. La Vita di Cleopatra Reina d'Egitto. [8], 62 leaves; lacks blanks F8 and H7-8. 8vo, 148x94 mm, later 17th-/early 18th-century tan calf gilt, top of spine chipped, lettering piece off; scattered cropped marginalia, light marginal dampstaining toward end. Venice: [Paulus Manutius], 1551
first edition andonly aldine edition. Drawn largely from Plutarch and other classical authors, Landi's book is apparently the first separately published biography of Cleopatra. Renouard, page 153(18); New UCLA 421.
