Vie du Cardinal d'Amboise, Premier Ministre de Louis XII. Avec un parallèle des cardinaux celebres, qui on gouverne' des estats
Rouen: Robert Machuel, 1724. Very Good. Item #46617
Rouen: Chez Robert Machuel, derriere la Choeur de S. Martin-sur-Renelle, 1724. First Edition. Quarto; full contemporary speckled calf, elaborately gilt spine in six compartments, all edges speckled red; [10],564pp. (collated presumed complete); engraved portrait frontispiece and two leaves of plates, one folding, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces. Leather a bit worn with exposure at corners, shallow surface scuffing, joints very slightly tender, else a Very Good and sound example. Handsome contemporary engraved armorial ex libris to front pastedown.
Account of the life and exploits of Georges d'Ambroise (1460-1510), who was elevated to cardinal and prime minister under the reign of Louis XII, leading the French army into Milan 1499 during the Italian Wars and wreaking such havoc (Leonardo Da Vinci's magnificent horse sculpture was destroyed after the French used it for target practice) that a revolt broke out in 1500 in favor of Ludovico Sforza. D'Ambroise returned to France where he commissioned a butter tower for the Rouen Cathedral and negotiated the Treaty of Blois and the League of Cambrai.
Price: $250.00