65 - FORMANTI: RACCOLTA DELLE HISTORIE DELLE VITE DEGL IMPERATORI OTTOMANI SINO A MEHEMET IV REGNANTE… GUERRA VIENNA … ARMI CHRISTIANI…., VENEZIA, 1684, together bound, RELAZIONE DEL SERRAGLIO DEGL IMPERATORI TURCHI OTTOMANI VENEZIA, 1684

FORMANTI: RACCOLTA DELLE HISTORIE DELLE VITE DEGL IMPERATORI OTTOMANI SINO A MEHEMET IV REGNANTE… GUERRA VIENNA … ARMI CHRISTIANI…., VENEZIA, 1684, together bound, RELAZIONE DEL SERRAGLIO DEGL IMPERATORI TURCHI OTTOMANI VENEZIA, 1684 First edition both works. Large Quarto, contemporary vellun soiled, some light water stain at the upper edge of a few pages, text clean and bright, both works complete 338p. and 74p., overall in very good condition. The first one hundred pages provide a short chronicle of the Turkish Sultans from Venetian sources, the rest is a detailed presentation of the contemporary war that after the Turkish attack on Vienna will lead to a Christian general counter attack and to the liberation of Hungary and the Morea.The book was written by Neriolava Formanti and published in Venice in 1684 by Giacomo Prodocimo. The second book is a detailed description of the Seraglio and covers the internal hierarchy of the Sultan's court,a description of the Harem, the Janissaries and the political and religious customs governing the Ottoman state. Formanti's work was intended to satisfy the curiosity of a public eager for news about the empire that had just been defeated at the gates of Vienna.Addressed to the general contemporary public it served particularly Venetian propaganda to boost Venetian people moral to support the Venetian attack in Greece that had just started that year.