[LITERATURE] [DRAMA] THE REBELLION OF NAPLES, OR THE TRAGEDY OF MASENELLO. COMMONLY SO CALLED: BUT RIGHTLY TOMASO ANIELLO DI MALFA GENERALL OF THE NEOPOLITANS. WRITTEN BY A GENTLEMAN WHO WAS AN EYEWITNES WHERE THIS WAS REALLY ACTED UPON THAT BLOUDY STAGE, THE STREETS OF NAPLES.

A Gentleman [Thomas Belke]

London: Printed for J. G. & G. B., 1649.

24mo. Full Leather. First Edition. 24mo; in full sheep, with primitive tooling in blind; rebacked with Japanese tissue; there is a bookplate on the upper board; lacking pastedowns; lacking folding frontispiece called for by ESTC. [8], 77, [3]; wear to the boards with surface loss~~A closet drama written during the height of the English Civil War, and contemporary with the events in Naples. ~~Written in the same year as the execution of King Charles I and the abolishment of the Monarchy and House of Lords, such a didactic drama must undoubtedly be considered a product of the tumultuous period. ~~Penned by a Thomas Belke, perhaps the same Thomas Belke who was a Rector in Kent, Fellow of Queens’ College, and Prebendary of Canterbury. An uncommon work, with fewer than twenty copies found on OCLC. (Wing B199. Greg II, 689. Thomason, E. 1358[2]. ESTC R12266. Queens’ College Cambridge, “Fellows 1600-1699”. ).

Very Good binding.
Item #298869

Price: $750.00