Relationi universali...
Girolamo Brusoni
di Stato e di Religione
Botero, Giovanni
Della ragion di stato et Della grandezza delle Citta
et una relatione del Mare
Botero, Giovanni
Aggiunte fatte allá sua Ragion di Stato et Relatione del Mare
Venetia, Bertani, 1671
In cuarto, 22x16,5 cm
Contemporary stiff vellum
Title in manuscript on the spine
Woodcut initials and end pieces in contemporary color (red only)
Botero: 4 nn lvs; 746 pp; 20 nn lvs including 4 folding maps;
Brusoni : 206 pp; 7 nn lvs
Botero, Citta: 4nn lvs; 162 pp; 7 nn lvs
Botero, Aggiunte: 2 nn lvs, 78 pp; 8 nn lvs.
This is a coherent collection of essays by two high placed and scientifically trained Venetian administrators. Boteros cosmography brought on top of his description of 5 continents and the islands of the world also a political comparison between the most important empires in the world including those in Africa, Asia and the Americas. Brusoni added his book on state formation and Christianisation in the Americas. Boteros other works, on good government and on the character and importance of cities became permanent members of the canon of basic texts in administration and is still studied today