Boccalini, T. (?). De ratione status imperii galliaeque circa pacem Noviomagensem, discursus

Veronae (= Germany), n.publ., 1680, (48) p., later brown blindst. leather in antique style, ribbed and gilt-lettered spine, 12mo. First and final page dust soiled, top of title-p. very carefully strengthened w. liquid paper.

Weller, Die falschen und fingirten Druckorte, I, p. 278. Obviously not written by Traiano Boccalini (1556-1613, Italian satirist and author of many political works), as the title mentions the peace of Nijmegen between France and Spain (1678). The German language edition, published in the same year, bears the title: Gespräch und Discursen von gegenwärtiger Staats-Beschaffenheit deß Heil. Röm. Reichs teutscher Nation, und der Cron Franckreich, nach dem zu Nimwegen geschlossenen Frieden: auß der Warheits-Burg. Cf. P. Stötzner, Der Satiriker Trajano Boccalini und sein Einfluss auf die deutsche Litteratur, in: Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Litteraturen, v. 103 (n.F.3), 1899, p. 145. Very rare short work, mentioning the Turks and their empire on p. 22-23, "Judiciae certè à Barbarô homine haut barbarum" on p. 26 and Scipio Africanus on p. 34.