Lunadoro (Girolamo) and Fioravante Martinelli. The Court of Rome. Wherein is sett forth the whole government thereof ... And a Direction for such as shall Travell to Rome, 2 parts in 1, first edition in English, translated by Henry Cogan, title in red and black, a few headlines just slightly shaved, some marginal browning and light foxing, later half calf, spine gilt, [Wing C6591], 8vo, Printed for Henry Herringman, 1654.

⁂ The first part describing the Papal Court is based on Lunadoro's Relatione della corte di Roma. The second part is one of the earliest traveller's guides in English to the City of Rome, largely taken from Martinelli's Roma ricercata. The translator, Henry Cogan, had as a young man accompanied Sir Henry Wotton's first embassy to Venice.