Dell'humiltà, et della gloria di Christo, libri tre.

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An excellent, clean, tall, well-margined copy of the second edition of the first Italian translation of this meditational work on the life of Christ. The first edition, published in Venice in 1595, appears to be extant in one copy only.Marko Marulic (1450-1524) was born in Split, in today's Croatia, then part of the Republic of Venice. The most praised 'Illyric' humanist of his day, he was the author of numerous, mostly theological works in Latin, Croatian and Italian. Dell'humilt is a posthumous Italian translation of his De humilitate et gloria Christi, first published in Venice in 1519. It focuses on Christ's humility, beginning with meditations on Christ's life, from his persecution to his death other episodes also providing the basis for the subsections in the rest of the work.Part II demonstrates how all that was said in Part I had been foreseen by the Prophets; Part III explains how, after earthly suffering, can come eternal bliss. The translator, Giuseppe Alcaini (d.1619), was a Venetian Dominican who intended this work to be used for personal meditation by a wide readership unacquainted with Latin.Only Newberry copy recorded in the US; none in the UK.