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MAFFEI, Raffaello (1451-1522). Commentariorum Urbanorum Raphaelis Volaterrani: octo & triginta libri cum duplici eorundem indice secundum Tomos collecto. Item Oeconomicus Xenophtis ab eodem latio donatus. Paris: Jean Petit and Jodocus Badrus Ascensius, 1 July, 1511.
2° (317 x 215mm). Title-page printed in red and black within decorative woodcut border printed in red and black, metalcut initals, contemporary marginal annotations and drawings. (Title-page cut close at foot and border shaved at fore-edge, tear at blank corner of B6, some marginal dampstaining, minor marginal worming affecting title-page and first and last leaves.) Contemporary blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, metal clasps and corners (extremities slightly rubbed.) Provenance: Nordkirken (armorial bookplate).
SECOND EDITION. Maffei was an humanist, an historian, and a theologian, and from a young age had devoted himself to the study of letters. He moved to Rome upon his father's appointment to a chair of law at the University of Rome in 1466, and from thence onwards concentrated upon philosophy and theology. Although principally interested in these two fields of academic endeavour, his carefully prepared Commentarium Urbanorum covered all subjects known to his contemporaries. Adams M 99; Alden I, 511/6; BLSTC French, p. 296; Sabin 43765; NUC lists three copies only.
2° (317 x 215mm). Title-page printed in red and black within decorative woodcut border printed in red and black, metalcut initals, contemporary marginal annotations and drawings. (Title-page cut close at foot and border shaved at fore-edge, tear at blank corner of B6, some marginal dampstaining, minor marginal worming affecting title-page and first and last leaves.) Contemporary blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, metal clasps and corners (extremities slightly rubbed.) Provenance: Nordkirken (armorial bookplate).
SECOND EDITION. Maffei was an humanist, an historian, and a theologian, and from a young age had devoted himself to the study of letters. He moved to Rome upon his father's appointment to a chair of law at the University of Rome in 1466, and from thence onwards concentrated upon philosophy and theology. Although principally interested in these two fields of academic endeavour, his carefully prepared Commentarium Urbanorum covered all subjects known to his contemporaries. Adams M 99; Alden I, 511/6; BLSTC French, p. 296; Sabin 43765; NUC lists three copies only.