Tommaso Porcacchi:
La nobiltá della cittá di Como.
Venezia, Giolito de Ferrari, 1569. 4to. 20,2 x 115 cms. [28] + 160 pp. Woodcuts on title, wodcut vignettes and initials in text.
Old full vellum, covers slightly warped, text with occasional staining, mostly marginal but a few leaves waterstained, old ownership inscription on final page, round stamp of Alexander Erba Odescalchi.
Pp. 37 ff. for the noble Odescalchi family, which traced the family line to Giorgio Odescalchi of Como, born around 1290. Como’s Palazzo Odescalchi was once the papal residence of Innocentius XI (born Benedetto Odescalchi).
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