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SAVONAROLA, Girolamo. Triumphus crucis. [Florence: Bartolommeo di Libri, 1497?].
Chancery 2° (257 x 192mm). Collation: π2 a-m8 (π1r title, π1v table of contents, a1r text). 98 leaves. 34 lines and headline. Type: 2:114R2, 3:114G. 2-9-line initial spaces with printed guide-letters. (Slight erasure wear on title, repaired on verso.) Modern plain paper boards. Provenance: Joannes Baptista P[--] (16th-century inscription deleted); Cametti Moretti (inscription).
Possibly the first edition. Di Libri published this work both in Latin and in Italian at about the same time, followed shortly thereafter by an octavo Latin edition. Convinced that Christianity was in crisis, Savonarola rails against the moral and spiritual decreptitude of his time. He takes the cross as the symbol of all that man has destroyed, and glories in its final triumph, once humble spirituality has been rediscovered and rescued from the sophists. HC *14342; BMC VI, 652 (IB. 27364; IB. 27366-67); Goff S-274; IGI 8801; Audin 18.
Chancery 2° (257 x 192mm). Collation: π2 a-m8 (π1r title, π1v table of contents, a1r text). 98 leaves. 34 lines and headline. Type: 2:114R2, 3:114G. 2-9-line initial spaces with printed guide-letters. (Slight erasure wear on title, repaired on verso.) Modern plain paper boards. Provenance: Joannes Baptista P[--] (16th-century inscription deleted); Cametti Moretti (inscription).
Possibly the first edition. Di Libri published this work both in Latin and in Italian at about the same time, followed shortly thereafter by an octavo Latin edition. Convinced that Christianity was in crisis, Savonarola rails against the moral and spiritual decreptitude of his time. He takes the cross as the symbol of all that man has destroyed, and glories in its final triumph, once humble spirituality has been rediscovered and rescued from the sophists. HC *14342; BMC VI, 652 (IB. 27364; IB. 27366-67); Goff S-274; IGI 8801; Audin 18.