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[iv], 316 pp. 6 full page engravings; folding map. (4to) 29.7x21.5 cm. (11¾x8½"), later stiff boards. A few pages at rear unopened, margins untrimmed, presumably a Large Paper copy. First Edition in Italian.

The first Italian language translation by Giuseppe Rossi of Count Zosimus' "New History". Count Zosimus was a Byzantine historian, who flourished in Constantinople during the reign of the Byzantine Emperor Anastasius I (491-518 C.E.). Zosimus was a pagan, and is by no means sparing of the faults and crimes of the Christian emperors. In consequence of this his credibility has been assailed by some Christian writers, and has been sometimes defended by others merely because his history tended to discredit many Christian leaders. OCLC WorldCat locates only 4 copies. Scarce.