Alfiere, Vittorio. Della Tirannide di Vittorio Alfieri da Asti. Volumi Uno e Due, completo. Milano: Tipografia Milanese, [1805]. [1100]
Faded purple cloth hardcover, dark green end papers, 15 x 10 cm, two volumes in one, separate title pages, clean, tight. 147 (1); 137 pp. Very good. Hardcover.
Milano anno IX. Dai torchj della Tipografia Milanese in Contrada nuova num. 561.
"Alfieri's political treatise Della Tirannide, first composed in 1777 in a single draft then revised in 1787 and 1789, is a vehement condemnation of absolute monarchy, which the writer equates with tyranny itself." - The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature, p. 13.