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DescriptionDiego del Castillo de Villasante
Tractatus de duello (Remedio de desafios sacado & vulgarizado...). (Turin: Antonio Ranoto, 25 October 1525)
4to (208 x 136mm.), woodcut illustration on title-page and at end, woodcut printer's device beneath colophon, later speckled calf, some light staining, hinges broken, spine slightly wormed
FIRST EDITION of Castillo's manual on duelling, with the text in both Latin and in Spanish translation. Castillo, who had studied law in Bologna and lived in Turin, was greatly influenced by the writings of Paride del Pozzo, a fellow jurist, who wrote the first systematic treatise on duelling [Naples, c.1477-1478] (see lot 85).
LITERATURE:Cockle 869; Edit16 10190; Mortimer, Harvard Italian 111; Sander 1795
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