249 - The famous “Testina” edition of Machiavelli’s works, The famous “Testina” edition of Machiavelli’s works

The famous “Testina” edition of Machiavelli’s works, The famous “Testina” edition of Machiavelli’s works A beautiful 17th-century edition of the works of Niccolò Machiavelli, known as “Testina” because of the small woodcut portrait of the author on the title page, falsely dated 1550 and traditionally attributed to a Geneva printing house. The collection brings together in five parts the historical, political, military, and literary writings of the Florentine Secretary, including *The Prince*, *Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius*, *The Florentine Histories*, and *On the Art of War*, along with his minor works. An important testament to Machiavelli’s European publishing success in the seventeenth century, when his writings continued to circulate despite ecclesiastical censorship. Quarto volume in a fine contemporary parchment binding with flaps, a double frame of dry-stamped fillets on the covers, a handwritten title on the spine, and traces of binding ribbons. The celebrated “Testina” edition of Machiavelli’s collected works