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The history of nepotism in Rome

[LETI, Gregorio].
Il nipotismo di Roma, o vero relatione delle raggione che muovono i Pontefici, all' aggrandimento de' nipoti. Del bene, e male che hanno portato alla Chiesa doppo Sisto IV. sino al presente. Delle difficoltà che incontrano i ministri de' prencipi nel trattare con loro, & insieme  col rimedio opportuno per liberarsi da tali difficoltà. E della causa perche le famiglie de' Pontefici non sono durate lungo tempo in grandezza.





(Amsterdam, Daniel Elsevier), 1667. 2 parts in 1 vol. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spine in compartments, gilt-lined with gilt stamped ornaments. (24), 208; 248, (24) pp.

First edition of the history of nepotism within the church at Rome, by Gregorio Leti, who has signed the dedication of the work to the Dutch scholar Jacob van Popta with his initials.
Gregorio Leti (1630-1701) was an Italian historian, militant Italian protestant, and satirist from Milan, who sometimes published under the pseudonym Abbe Gualdi, known for his works about the Roman Catholic Church, especially the papacy. All of his publications were listed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum.

Raised  by the Jesuits and marked out for a career in the church at Rome, his conversion to protestantism caused a great scandal  and Leti was forced to leave Italy. He resided in the court of Louis XIV of France and in 1680 in that of Charles II of England, who commissioned him to write a history of England. He wrote the first ever proper life of Elizabeth I of England, which includes many romantic embellishments about her youth and her mother, Anne Boleyn. After the publication of a collection of anecdotes which offended Charles II, Il Teatro Britannico, Leti fled England in 1683 for Amsterdam, where he became the city historiographer in 1685. He published a large number of historical works, not only on Italy, but also on Philips II of Spain, the House of Brandenburg, etc.
The present work  became very popular, and was also translated into Dutch (Het neefschap te Rome (1678)) and French (Le nepotisme de Rome (1669)). This first edition, in Italian, was published  anonymously by the House of Elzevier, and is found listed  in the stock-catalogues, published by Daniel Elsevier in  1675 and 1581.

Good copy.- (Fronthinge weak, top of spine sl. dam.).
Willems 1384 ('Edition bien imprimée'); Rahir 152, 1447; Krivatsky, Bibliogr. Leti 141; Brunet IV, 615.

Related Subjects: Catholicism  Church History  History  Rome 

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