[Rome] Mexia, Pedro: The Lives of all the Roman Emperors from Julius Caesar to Ridolfo II. Taken by M. Lodouico Dolce from the Spanish book of the noble knight Pietro Messia. Venice, Alessandro Vecchi, 1610

Format in-4°, mm. 220x160, pp. (64), 986, (2) Complete. Later binding (18th or 19th century) in half leather with marbled paper boards. Gold titles and decorations on the spine. Copy with a water stain on the lower margin of the leaves. Restorations on the first 3 leaves and the last 2. Sporadic foxing and signs of aging.
The Lives of all the Roman Emperors from Julius Caesar to Ridolfo II. Taken by M. Lodouico Dolce from the Spanish book by the noble knight Pietro Messia. Added the portraits of the emperors of the House of Austria ... With a compendium of the lives of the Roman Pontiffs, and their portraits. Printed in Venice in 1610 by Alessandro de' Vecchi. Printer's device in woodcut on the colophon. Portrait of Ridolfo II in copperplate on the frontispiece. Numerous portraits engraved in copperplate in the text. Woodcut headpieces, initials and finals. Large headpiece with woodcut vignette on f. A1. Translation from Spanish into Italian by Ludovico Dolce (c. 1508-1568), a well-known Italian writer and grammarian.