1629 GUICCIARDINI DALLINGTON Aphorismes Folio No Res

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APHORISMESCIVILL AND MILITARIE: Amplified with Authorities, and exemplified with Historie, out of the first Quarterne of Fr. Guicciardine. L O N D O N,Printed by M. Flefher for Robert Allot, at the figne of the Blacke Beare in Pauls Churchyard.1629. ~ THE SECOND EDITION ~ Contemporary i.e. seventeenth century full calf, neatly rebacked and with blank endpapers replaced, last leaf slightly frayed, spotting and browning to most pages, two leaves heavily browned. A folio volume, it measures approximately 28.5cm (11") x 19cm (7½") x 3cm (1¼"). Pagination pp. [6], 339, [1, blank]; 61, [1, blank], text collated and complete. Sir Robert Dallington (1561-1637), master of Charterhouse, was born at Geddington, Northamptonshire, in 1561. According to Fuller and Masters he entered Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, as a bible clerk, but according to Wood he was a Greek scholar of Pembroke Hall. All agree in saying that on leaving the university Dallington became a schoolmaster in Norfolk. After a few years as schoolmaster Dallington had gained enough money to enable him to indulge in foreign travel, and he set out on a long and leisurely journey through France and Italy. On his return he became secretary to Francis, earl of Rutland, and wrote an account of his travels. A Survey of the Great Duke's State of Tuscany, in the yeare of our Lord 1596, appeared in 1605, and was followed the next year by A Method for Travell: shewed by taking the view of France as it stoode in the yeare of our Lord 1598. Both of these volumes are admirable books of the guide-book description, and contain, moreover, much entertaining and instructive matter; the latter is especially distinguished by some valuable hints to the traveller on the best method for advantageously observing the manners and customs of foreign countries. Dallington published in 1613 a book entitled Aphorismes Civill and Militarie, amplified with authorities, and exemplified with historie out of the first Quaterne of F. Guicciardine (a briefe inference upon Guicciardine's digression, in the fourth part of the first Quaterne of his Historie, forbidden the impression and effaced out of the originall by the Inquisition). The second edition of Aphorismes published 1629, contains a translation of the inhibited digression. The work was dedicated to prince Charles, later Charles I, and following the publication of the first edition Charles, 'against much opposition and competition,' found him a lucrative sinecure as Master of Charterhouse grammar school and hospital, a prestigious post he held until his death in 1637. Dallington's Aphorismes is chiefly based on 'Ricordi' or maxims of state of Francesco Guicciardini (1483-1540), the famous Florentine historian and statesman. A friend and critic of Niccolo Machiavelli, he is considered one of the major political writers of the Italian Renaissance. He was employed by the Medici and the papacy. He was commissioner general for the papal army at the time of the sack of Rome. His work was known by Ralegh and Bacon, and was used by Holingshed in his Chronicles, it had wide diffusion and is of lasting significance. Dallington's Aphorismes, contains a collection of political aphorisms extracted from the works of Guicciardini. "In the history of Renaissance thought, Guicciardini's 'Ricordi' occupy a place of singular importance. Few works of the sixteenth century allow us so penetrating an insight into the views and sentiments of its author as these reflections of the great Italian historian... Like Machiavelli's Prince, the Ricordi form one of the outstanding documents of a time of crisis and transition; but unlike the Prince, they range over a wide field of private as well as public life. In doing so, they revel the man as well as the political theorist." Nicolai Rubenstein The 1629 SECOND EDITION which also contains a translation into English of the 'inhibited digression' noted in the title of, but not included in the first edition.