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As Albergati states in the preface letter to cardinal Pietro Aldobrandini, he had been asked to write the work by cardinal Francisco de Toledo Herrera in order to reprobate Jean Bodin's political theories by means of a strong defence of Aristotle's.…

4°. §4, A-Z4, Aa-Zz4, Aaa-Mmm4, Nnn6. ff. [4], pp. 427, ff. 24. Text in Roman, quotations in Italics. mm. 220×150.

Panfilo Persico conceived this work as a compendium of Aristotle's Ethics and Politics. The manuscript copy (Vatican City, ASV,Borghese IV.16) is a first version, dedicated to cardinal Scipione Borghese Caffarelli, who was a renown Aristotelian…

4°.†-†††4, A-Z4, Aa-Zz4, Aaa-Ttt4. ff. [i], [12], 260. mm. 155×215.

The anonymous compendium of Aristotle's Politics might be dated around 1598 (the text is followed in the ms. Rome, BVall, R 55 by a document copied by the same hand in 1598). An other copy of the work, copied by the same scribe, but in a more cursive…

Paper; misc., comp.; ff. I, 533, I. Old binding. Title on spine: 'Trattati / Di Politica / E Ragioni Di / Stato'. Unit 1, ff. 7r-53v: mm. 205_280.