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GENTILIS Becchius Urbinas, Bishop of Arezzo (fl. 1462-97). Oratio Florentinorum coram Alexandro VI habita. [Rome: Stephan Plannck, after 28 November 1492].
Chancery 4° (106 x 138 mm). Collation: [1]4 (1/1r text). 4 leaves. 27 lines. Type 10:108R. One woodcut white-vine initial. Formerly part of a Sammelband with MS foliation 12-15. (Hinges strengthened, a few light spots.) Modern maroon crushed morocco, single gilt fillet to sides, gilt turn-ins, padded with modern paper at the end.
Provenance: George Dunn of Woolley Hall, near Maidenhead, bookplate; Giuseppe Martini, bookplate; Prince Piero Ginori Conti, bookplate.
One of two undated editions printed at Rome, presumably just after the Florentine ambassadors were received at the Vatican on 28 November 1492. Gentilis, a canon at the Duomo and a close associate of Lorenzo de' Medici, delivered the oration on behalf of the people of Florence, pledging their obedience to the newly elected Pope Alexander VI. Gentilis had been a papal scribe to Alexander VI's predecessors, Popes Paul II and Sixtus IV, and had undertaken other missions as Florentine ambassador to the Vatican.
HC *7560; BMC VII, 1130 (IA. 18508); GW 10609/10; IGI 1428; Pellechet 5019; Goff G-131.
Chancery 4° (106 x 138 mm). Collation: [1]4 (1/1r text). 4 leaves. 27 lines. Type 10:108R. One woodcut white-vine initial. Formerly part of a Sammelband with MS foliation 12-15. (Hinges strengthened, a few light spots.) Modern maroon crushed morocco, single gilt fillet to sides, gilt turn-ins, padded with modern paper at the end.
Provenance: George Dunn of Woolley Hall, near Maidenhead, bookplate; Giuseppe Martini, bookplate; Prince Piero Ginori Conti, bookplate.
One of two undated editions printed at Rome, presumably just after the Florentine ambassadors were received at the Vatican on 28 November 1492. Gentilis, a canon at the Duomo and a close associate of Lorenzo de' Medici, delivered the oration on behalf of the people of Florence, pledging their obedience to the newly elected Pope Alexander VI. Gentilis had been a papal scribe to Alexander VI's predecessors, Popes Paul II and Sixtus IV, and had undertaken other missions as Florentine ambassador to the Vatican.
HC *7560; BMC VII, 1130 (IA. 18508); GW 10609/10; IGI 1428; Pellechet 5019; Goff G-131.