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FALCONIA PROBA, Valeria (fl. 4th century). Centone vatis clarissime opusculum De fidei nostre mysterijs e Maronis carminibus excerptum: et a Diuo Hieronymo co[m]probatu[m]. Venice: Simon de Luere, 13 May 1512. 8° (149 x 99mm). Large woodcut on title-page of two women talking together with, behind, a river flowing through a town, another woman, the authoress, writing at a lectern. 19th-century red boards gilt. Provenance: later 16th-century inscription at head of title-page 'Ad usu[m] F[rat]ris Petri pamphili de Firmi or. mi.'. The Cento comprises collected passages from the works of Virgil, compiled by the wife of Clodius Celsinus Adelphius. Sander 5896; not in BLSTC Italian.
GANGALA RUSCIUS, James, of the March of Ancona (St., d.1476). Confessione. Venice: Bernardinus Benalius, [ca. 1515]. 8° (146 x 97mm). Large woodcut (rather worn) on title-page, small woodcuts of the twelve apostles on the last page. Early 20th-century green morocco gilt, g.e. Provenance: Jepson (bookplate). One of several fifteenth and early sixteenth century editions of this Franciscan Confession. Sander 3028; not in BLSTC Italian.
MARINELLI, Lucretia. Scielta d'alcune rime. Bergamo: Comin Ventura, 1605. 4° (184 x 120mm). Title and every page within a typographical border, 9 woodcut illustrations in the text, a wide-margined copy in early 20th-century polished calf gilt (hinges rubbed). First edition of these devotional poems dedicated to Cornelia Casale by Lucrezia Marinelli (1571-1653), a Venetian widow who, after the death of her husband, devoted herself to literature, publishing several works in prose and verse. Not in BLSTC Italian. (3)
GANGALA RUSCIUS, James, of the March of Ancona (St., d.1476). Confessione. Venice: Bernardinus Benalius, [ca. 1515]. 8° (146 x 97mm). Large woodcut (rather worn) on title-page, small woodcuts of the twelve apostles on the last page. Early 20th-century green morocco gilt, g.e. Provenance: Jepson (bookplate). One of several fifteenth and early sixteenth century editions of this Franciscan Confession. Sander 3028; not in BLSTC Italian.
MARINELLI, Lucretia. Scielta d'alcune rime. Bergamo: Comin Ventura, 1605. 4° (184 x 120mm). Title and every page within a typographical border, 9 woodcut illustrations in the text, a wide-margined copy in early 20th-century polished calf gilt (hinges rubbed). First edition of these devotional poems dedicated to Cornelia Casale by Lucrezia Marinelli (1571-1653), a Venetian widow who, after the death of her husband, devoted herself to literature, publishing several works in prose and verse. Not in BLSTC Italian. (3)