Leonardo Bruni

De bello Gothico

Inc. par. 1017

Venice 1471

The edition was produced by the Frenchman Nicolas Jenson, who arrived in Venice and who represented, well before the activity of Manutius, the most refined typographer of the time; he also distinguished himself for his commercial organization within the book market, abandoning the family model and transforming the company into a real company which, in order to survive, handled advertising and tried to make itself known in the Venetian circles of power.

The specimen in the Palatine Library, belonging to the library of Count Filippo Linati, has the first leaf decorated with a frame in white girari with phytomorphic, zoomorphic and anthropomorphic motifs in green, blue, red, black and gold.