Price: £1,250
Subject: Theology
Published Date: 1596
Stock Number: 69203
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Dell'humiltà, et della gloria di C... - Marulic (Marko); Alcaini, Giuseppe, trans.
Description: charming woodcut title border, decorated initials and ornaments, very small faint water stain to title foreedge, gathering A misbound, pp. [20], 260, A4 and b6 blank, tall 4to, contemporary vellum, recased (endpapers renewed, but not modern), early ms. title and casemarks inked to spine, small repair at foot of spine, very minor soiling to covers, modern bookplate to front pastedown.
Publication Details: Venice: F. Prati, 1596
Notes: 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'humiltà is a posthumous Italian translation of his De humilitate et gloria Christi, first published in Venice in 1519. ...more
Bibliography: EDIT16 CNCE 36012; USTC 841279. Not in Brunet or BM STC It
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