PETRARCA, Francesco. Chronica delle vite de pontifici et imperatori romani..., [Venice: per Francesco Bindoni & Mapheo Pasini compagni], January 1534. 8, title within woodcut border, printer's device on verso of final leaf (occasional spotting), 19th-century half vellum, manuscript title on spine (rubbed). A suppositious work giving brief biographies of the temporal and spiritual leaders of Rome and the Holy Roman Empire from Julius Caesar to Clement VII. Sander 5598; Sabin 61292.

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PETRARCA, Francesco. Chronica delle vite de pontifici et imperatori romani..., [Venice: per Francesco Bindoni & Mapheo Pasini compagni], January 1534. 8, title within woodcut border, printer's device on verso of final leaf (occasional spotting), 19th-century half vellum, manuscript title on spine (rubbed). A suppositious work giving brief biographies of the temporal and spiritual leaders of Rome and the Holy Roman Empire from Julius Caesar to Clement VII. Sander 5598; Sabin 61292.

SCHERER, Giorgio. Trattato ... nel quale con verissime ragioni prova non esser vero, che gi stato in Roma una donna pontefice, Venice: appresso i Giolito, 1586. 8, title within woodcut historiated border, printer's device at end, woodcut initials (waterstained throughout), 19th-century cloth. Second edition in Italian of this work, which proves that Pope Joan never existed. Bongi II, p. 408.

With Giuseppe M. Ercolani's La Sulamitide sagra di Neralco pastore arcade (Rome, 1739). (3)

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