G[iangolino] C[arlo] - Baglione Astore.: Svegliarino che monstra alla Christinita essere gionta l hora opportune di mouersi contro la Potenza Ottomana…esposto public da G.B.C.V…… l ultima Tragica Historia del Regno di Cipro.La Guerra di Cipro,du cui Generale Astorre Baglione e si descrine tutta quell Isola. Luzern 1646 First and only edition of the first work. Second edition of the work about Cyprus. In 4to 24x17cm,contemporary full vellum slightly soiled, endpapers renewed,very light scattered browning, text clean and bright, complete both texts 83p.,[4],74p.,[2],overall very good. Carlo Giangolino an Italian writer and cosmographer stayed two years in the Levant around 1640 and studied the military capabilities of the Ottomans. This is his first work where he tried to present the Ottoman empires weakness in several levels and promote a joint Christian attack at the very beginning of the Cretan War. In this account he provides a lot of information for the administrative, military and social structure of the Turks. He later wrote the Anatomia del Impero Ottomano si vede l origine, conquisti, costume, usange, leggi e forze de Turchi. Baglione was a Venetian captain and the governor of Famagusta (Ammochostos) in the time of the Turkish attack in 1570.He fought bravely for several months and finally, in 1571, decided to surrender. Although the Turks promised a safe return to Crete to the survivors, Baglioni and other commanders had been beheaded in revenge for the huge casualties of the Turkish army.This account of the war of 1570-1571 in Cyprus is based in the official dispatches and information that he was able to send to Venice during the operations It appeared in 1591 in Verona,as Vitta e fatti del valorissimo capitano Astore Baglione.A unique source for Cyprus. Not in Atabey,Blackmer or any other known collection Only five copies in the Public Libraries worldwide, four have together joint the two parts and in three of them,as here, the first leaf of the second work is missing. Rare early accounts