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MONTANUS, Nicolaus vel Cola (ca.1450-1480). Oratio ad Luccenses. [Rome: Johannes Bulle, ca. 1479].
Chancery 4° (191 x 135mm). Collation: [18] (1/1 blank, 1/2r text, 1/8v blank). 8 leaves. 35-36 lines. Type: 1:83G. One 2-line initial space filled in later hand. (Some light staining.) Later vellum wrappers from a 15th-century MS. leaf.
FIRST EDITION. Montanus delivered this address at Lucca in 1479. In advocating a divorce from Florence and unification with the Neapolitans, he openly criticized Lorenzo de' Medici; Lorenzo had Montanus killed less than 2 years later. NO COPY IN AMERICA. C 4351; BMC IV, 79 (IA. 18293); IGI 6708; CIBN M-532.
Chancery 4° (191 x 135mm). Collation: [18] (1/1 blank, 1/2r text, 1/8v blank). 8 leaves. 35-36 lines. Type: 1:83G. One 2-line initial space filled in later hand. (Some light staining.) Later vellum wrappers from a 15th-century MS. leaf.
FIRST EDITION. Montanus delivered this address at Lucca in 1479. In advocating a divorce from Florence and unification with the Neapolitans, he openly criticized Lorenzo de' Medici; Lorenzo had Montanus killed less than 2 years later. NO COPY IN AMERICA. C 4351; BMC IV, 79 (IA. 18293); IGI 6708; CIBN M-532.