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SAVONAROLA, Girolamo (1452-98). Compendium revelationum, in Italian: Compendio di revelatione. Florence: Francesco Bonaccorsi, "18 August 1495".
Chancery 4° (210 x 140mm). Collation: a-d8 e-g6 h4 (a1r text, h4r colophon, h4v blank). 54 leaves. 35 lines (32 on a1). Type: 3:88R. Two 3-line initial spaces. (Very occasional light spotting.) Modern full calf, slipcase.
Second edition, issued immediately after the first, of the work which Savonarola sent to Pope Alexander VI in response to being summoned to Rome. Alexander, increasingly concerned with Savonarola's claim to have received revelations directly from God, summoned him to Rome to explain himself. Savonarola pleaded ill-health and boldly wrote that he would send instead a copy of this work, which he had recently composed. Previously considered the first edition (variant "a"), the present edition is in fact the second. Buonaccorsi issued copies of this edition using the final 1½ sheets of his first edition, which he apparently had printed off in greater number in anticipation of demand for it. Other copies were issued in which the final sheets had been re-set as well, although mis-dated "1485". (See Ridolfi, Vita di Girolamo Savonarola II, 151-151). HC (+Add) 14334; BMC VI, 674 (IA. 27625); Audin 8; IGI 8678.
Chancery 4° (210 x 140mm). Collation: a-d8 e-g6 h4 (a1r text, h4r colophon, h4v blank). 54 leaves. 35 lines (32 on a1). Type: 3:88R. Two 3-line initial spaces. (Very occasional light spotting.) Modern full calf, slipcase.
Second edition, issued immediately after the first, of the work which Savonarola sent to Pope Alexander VI in response to being summoned to Rome. Alexander, increasingly concerned with Savonarola's claim to have received revelations directly from God, summoned him to Rome to explain himself. Savonarola pleaded ill-health and boldly wrote that he would send instead a copy of this work, which he had recently composed. Previously considered the first edition (variant "a"), the present edition is in fact the second. Buonaccorsi issued copies of this edition using the final 1½ sheets of his first edition, which he apparently had printed off in greater number in anticipation of demand for it. Other copies were issued in which the final sheets had been re-set as well, although mis-dated "1485". (See Ridolfi, Vita di Girolamo Savonarola II, 151-151). HC (+Add) 14334; BMC VI, 674 (IA. 27625); Audin 8; IGI 8678.