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ORTIZIUS, Blasius. Itinerarium Adriani sexti; ab Hispania; unde summus acersitus fuit pontifex; Romam usque; ac ipsius pontificatus eventus. Edited by Blasius Garaius. Toledo: Joannes Ayala, November 1546.
8° (150 x 100 mm). Collation: a-l8 m4. 92 leaves. Roman type. Woodcut arms of Adrian VI on title. (First few leaves foxed and slightly stained, paper flaw to a6, dampstaining at end, some marginal dampstaining elsewhere.) 19th-century straight-grained morocco-backed boards, smooth spine gilt in compartments, olive morocco lettering-piece (extremities rubbed, text block detaching slightly at end).
FIRST EDITION. Adrian Dedel, native of Utrecht and vice-chancellor of the University of Leiden from 1491, was appointed tutor to the seven-year-old Emperor Charles V in 1507. In 1515 he was sent on an important diplomatic mission to Spain, where he remained under a succession of ecclesiastical and secular titles, including inquisitor-general of Aragon and regent of Spain from 1520. He was unanimously elected pope on 9 January 1522, and reigned as Hadrian VI for a year and a half before his death in September 1523. Ortiz's Itinerarium recounts Adrian's voyage from Tarragona to Rome for the coronation, and recounts the major events of his brief pontificate. It contains much useful socio-historical and topographical information on the regions traversed during the trip to Rome, particularly Aragon and Catalonia.
BM/STC Spanish, p. 65; Palau 205594.
8° (150 x 100 mm). Collation: a-l8 m4. 92 leaves. Roman type. Woodcut arms of Adrian VI on title. (First few leaves foxed and slightly stained, paper flaw to a6, dampstaining at end, some marginal dampstaining elsewhere.) 19th-century straight-grained morocco-backed boards, smooth spine gilt in compartments, olive morocco lettering-piece (extremities rubbed, text block detaching slightly at end).
FIRST EDITION. Adrian Dedel, native of Utrecht and vice-chancellor of the University of Leiden from 1491, was appointed tutor to the seven-year-old Emperor Charles V in 1507. In 1515 he was sent on an important diplomatic mission to Spain, where he remained under a succession of ecclesiastical and secular titles, including inquisitor-general of Aragon and regent of Spain from 1520. He was unanimously elected pope on 9 January 1522, and reigned as Hadrian VI for a year and a half before his death in September 1523. Ortiz's Itinerarium recounts Adrian's voyage from Tarragona to Rome for the coronation, and recounts the major events of his brief pontificate. It contains much useful socio-historical and topographical information on the regions traversed during the trip to Rome, particularly Aragon and Catalonia.
BM/STC Spanish, p. 65; Palau 205594.