Giovio, Paolo: Le vite de Leon Decimo et d’Adriano VI sommi pontefici, et del cardinal Pompeo Colonna, scritte per mons. Paolo Giovio vescovo di Nocera, & tradotte da m. Lodovico Domenichi (1551)
€440,00
Giovio, Paolo (1483-1552)
LE VITE DI LEON DECIMO ET D’ADRIANO VI SOMMI PONTEFICI, ET DEL CARDINAL POMPEO COLONNA, SCRITTE PER MONS. PAOLO GIOUIO VESCOUO DI NOCERA & TRADOTTE DA M. LODOUICO DOMENICHI.
In Fiorenza, appresso Lorenzo Torrentino, 1551
Description : [in 8vo] – pp. 459, (b), (2b). TORRENTINE EDITION
Nice small 8vo edition of the Biographies of the Popes Leo X, Adrianus VI and of the cardinal Pompeo Colonna penned by Paolo Giovio. The first Edition of Giovio’s Lives was printed 3 years before (1548) in folio format.
Very nice copy in very good antiquarian condition, late XVIII-XIX century italian binding in half leather with gilt lettering and decoration on spine and marbled paper boards. Nice copy in very good antiquarian conditions
Cfr.: EDIT 16 Censimento delle Edizioni Italiane del XVI Secolo, Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico, ref. CNCE 21181; J.C. BRUNET, Manuel du Libraire et de l’amateur de Livres. IV ed., Paris, (1842), Vol. II, p.736-737
