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[LETI (Gregorio)]. The Story of Donna Olimpia Maldachini.
See original version (French)
167
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[LETI (Gregorio)]. The Story of Donna Olimpia Maldachini.
See original version (French)
Estimate €400 - €500
Voluntary lot
Description
[LETI (Gregorio)]. The Story of Donna Olimpia Maldachini. Translated from the Italian by Abbé Gualdi. Leiden, Jean Du Val, 1666. Small 12mo, brown morocco, Du Seuil-style frame, decorated spine, blue morocco endpapers and linings, gilt edges (19th-century binding). First edition of Renoult’s translation of *Vita di donna Olimpia Maldachini*, a satirical work by G. Leti, published under the pseudonym ‘Abbé Gualdi’ in Amsterdam in 1666. These are the scandalous adventures of a courtesan at the Vatican under Pope Innocent X.
Gregorio Leti (Milan, 1630 – Amsterdam, 1701) was a Protestant historian and polemicist.
A fine copy in a delicate, unsigned binding.
From the Bernard Jean library (1992, I, no. 102), with bookplate.
See original version (French)
Auto-translation. Refer to original language for legal validity.
About the sale
Xavier de Planhol Library – The Origins of the Novel
Auction location
Auction time
09/30/2026 at 2:00 PM
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