1716 1st Edtn Vellum With Provenance L EROISMO PONDERATO NELLA VITA DI ALESSANDRO IL GRANDE By Dionisio Barone di Kossin Illus. Very Good History

1716 1st Edition , Vellum With Provenance
L EROISMO PONDERATO NELLA VITA DI ALESSANDRO IL GRANDE
Illustrata con Discorsi Istorici, Politici, e Morali.
Opera Di Dionisio
By Dionisio Barone di Kossin


Illustrated By: N/A


Format: Hardcover,
Language: Latin
Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Published By: In Parma, per Paolo Monti, Italy

Royal octavo (8vo 6+1⁄4 × 10 159 × 254),Pages 753

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Alexander III of Macedon (20/21 July 356 BC – 10/11 June 323 BC), commonly known as Alexander the Great, was a king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon. He succeeded his father Philip II to the throne in 336 BC at the age of 20, and spent most of his ruling years conducting a lengthy military campaign throughout Western Asia and Egypt. By the age of 30, he had created one of the largest empires in history, stretching from Greece to northwestern India. He was undefeated in battle and is widely considered to be one of history's greatest and most successful military commanders.

With Provenance Previous Owner 9th Duke of Norfolk - Edward Howard, 9th Duke of Norfolk (5 June 1686 – 20 September 1777), of Worksop Manor in Nottinghamshire and of Norfolk House in London, was a British peer, politician and hereditary Earl Marshal. He took part in the Jacobite Rising of 1715, one of several English noblemen to do so. Through the intercession of his brother, he escaped the punishment for high treason. He succeeded as 9th Duke of Norfolk in 1732, after the death of his childless elder brother Thomas Howard, 8th Duke of Norfolk. Largely at the instigation of his wife, a fellow Roman Catholic and a talented and highly regarded interior designer and embroiderer, he rebuilt Norfolk House in St James's Square in London on a grand scale and commenced the rebuilding of Worksop on a palatial scale, to rival Blenheim Palace. The latter project was abandoned after the completion of only one wing following the death of the couple's beloved nephew and heir apparent Edward Howard (1743/4-1767), the son of the Duke's younger brother Philip Howard (1688-1750) of Buckenham Tofts, Norfolk, by his second wife Henrietta Blount (d.1782), a sister of his wife. Edward died in 1767, aged 23, due to a fever he caught while playing tennis not fully recovered from measles. The Duchess was affected "almost to distraction and she never recovered from the blow". The couple realised that their next heir was a distant male cousin they hardly knew and who was a "depressing" contrast to Edward.

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