1575-1577 ELOGIA VIRORUM BELLICA VIRTUTE by Paolo Giovio ILLUSTRATED antique

img{max-width:100%} Elogia virorum bellica virtute illustrium, septem libris iam olim ab authore comprehensa, et nunc ex eiusdem musaeo ad vivum expressis imaginibus exornata(Praise of Men Illustrious for Courage in War)by Giovio, Paolo (1483-1552)Basel: Heinrich Petrus & Petrus Perna, 1575First illustrated edition of Giovio's classic biographical works with the renown portrait woodcuts by Tobias Stimmer including among the earliest printed portrait of CHRISTOPHOR COLUMBUS.Accounts of the lives of illustrious men, whose portraits Giovio maintained in his private collection at his villa at Lake Como, including prominent leaders of Arabia and Persia, Christopher Columbus and Hernando Cortes as well as Alexander the Great, Attila the Hun, Cesar Borgia, Emperor Charles V,  Elizabeth of Aragon, Francisco Gonzaga, Henry VIII of England, Louis XII of France, Mahomet II of Turkey, Matthias Corvinus of Hungary, King Robert of Naples, King Sigismund of Poland, Suleiman the Great, Emperor of