Annali d'Italia dal Principio dell'era Volgare Sino all'anno 1750 Compilati da L. A. Muratori, e Continuati Sino ai Giorni Nostri  (55 volume set)

Lodovico Antonio Muratori

tip. di Giuseppe Antonelli, Venezia, 1833

55 volumes, bound in 24.  17 cm.  Bound in contemporary 1/4 green leather over marbled boards. Hardcover.  Good binding and cover. A few spine heads chipped. Clean, unmarked pages. Muratori, an Italian scholar from Modena.  He discovered large groups of unedited Latin and Greek manuscripts at the Ambrosian library at Milan.  He published this vast collection and others in these annuals.  Annali is one of the best comprehensive works on the sources of Italian history, which remains a useful reference to the student of written and printed documents.  Muratori, is known as "the father of Italian history". Bookplate of Samuel Shellabarger.  Shellabarger (1888-1954), was an American educator and author of numerous historical novels.