4to, mm. 220x160; contemporary full smooth vellum; pp. 8 nn., including titlepage, 534, 33 nn, 1 b.; titlepage red and black with the woodcut coat of arms of Rome; woodcut iniatial letters and ornaments; colophon and printer’s device on the last page. Notes of previous ownership on titlepage and colophon, signed by Vincenzo da Cellara and Cesare Malaspina. Manuscript sonnets writtewn by the two owners on the endpapers, the firts two in honor of Masaniello. Traces of humidity and traces of wear, unsophisticated copy.
Rare edition with the handwritten sonnets of the two owners in the guard sheets, the first two in honor of Masaniello. Treaty of considerable interest in the history of law. Blasi: “Sallustio Tiberio che, a detta degli storici del tempo, dov’è impersonare un giureconsulto d’eccezione e di erudizione vastissima e di più nota fama nel mondo forense. Fu infatti cancelliere dell’uditore della Camera di Roma. Pubblicò varie opere, in specie il “De modis procedendis in causis”.
Work of great interest are the handwritten notes, in particular the two sonnets in the initial end papers, which are dedicated to Masaniello. The first, which is unpublished, begins with ‘Dal remo al scettro, e da vil barca al trono’ and bears the date 10 July 1647, six days before the assassination of the Neapolitan leader; the second ‘Altra paga sperai, altra mercede’ is a variant of the sonnet known as 'Lamento di Masaniello', but here it bears the heading ‘Quando fu ucciso Masaniello’. Bruno Blasi, Luoghi e persone di Tarquinia nella letteratura moderna e contemporanea, Bollettino STAS [Societa’ Tarquiniense d’arte e Storia], 1972.