A true romance worthy of Cervantes
SOLD at Sotheby’s (20% buyer’s premium) for £10,500 on December 9 was a copy in modern limp vellum of the Epigrammata of Joan Latinus, a work that praises John of Austria for his recent victory over the Turks at Lepanto.
Printed at Granada in 1573, with the title page shown right, this is one of the earlier books known …