Humanist Texts -- Grapaldus (Franciscus Marius): Lexicon de Partibus Aedium, Lyon, Haeredes Simonis Vincentii [Melchior et Gaspar Trechsel], 1535, 8vo, italic, woodcut publisher's device and initials, colophon with woodcut border (early ownership inscription on title, occasional marginal annotations), 19th-century morocco, g.e. [Baudrier XII, 244; Brunet II, 1710] -- Leonicus Thomaeus (Nicholaus): Dialogi nunc primum in lucem editi, [colophon: Venice, in aedibus Gregorii de Gregoriis, 1524, sm. 4to, italic (ownership inscription and small stamp on title, some dampstains, mainly at margins, I3- M2 holed at outer margin), vellum [Adams L507] -- [Poggio] Poggius Florentinus: Historiae Convivales Disceptativae. Orationes. Invectivae. Epistolae. Descriptiones Quaedam et Facetiarum Liber, Paris, Jehan Petit, [1511], 4to, Roman type, title with large printer's device in woodcut, woodcut initials, late 19th-century crimson morocco, gilt, by Niedree -- Valla (Laurentius): Elegantiarum Libri Omnes, Cologne, excudebat Ioannes Gymnicus, 1530, 8vo, Roman type, title to the fourth part with woodcut border, woodcut initials (title somehwat soiled and slightly wormed at inner margin, old dampstains, [?] lacking final blank), contemporary blind-stamped calf with author's name on the front cover and date 1533, the back cover panels the name of 'Ioannes Kraft', probably the book's first owner, both covers with medallion roll repeating the date (rebacked, clasps lacking); and 7 others, the majority 16th-century. (11)

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Humanist Texts -- Grapaldus (Franciscus Marius): Lexicon de Partibus Aedium, Lyon, Haeredes Simonis Vincentii [Melchior et Gaspar Trechsel], 1535, 8vo, italic, woodcut publisher's device and initials, colophon with woodcut border (early ownership inscription on title, occasional marginal annotations), 19th-century morocco, g.e. [Baudrier XII, 244; Brunet II, 1710] -- Leonicus Thomaeus (Nicholaus): Dialogi nunc primum in lucem editi, [colophon: Venice, in aedibus Gregorii de Gregoriis, 1524, sm. 4to, italic (ownership inscription and small stamp on title, some dampstains, mainly at margins, I3- M2 holed at outer margin), vellum [Adams L507] -- [Poggio] Poggius Florentinus: Historiae Convivales Disceptativae. Orationes. Invectivae. Epistolae. Descriptiones Quaedam et Facetiarum Liber, Paris, Jehan Petit, [1511], 4to, Roman type, title with large printer's device in woodcut, woodcut initials, late 19th-century crimson morocco, gilt, by Niedree -- Valla (Laurentius): Elegantiarum Libri Omnes, Cologne, excudebat Ioannes Gymnicus, 1530, 8vo, Roman type, title to the fourth part with woodcut border, woodcut initials (title somehwat soiled and slightly wormed at inner margin, old dampstains, [?] lacking final blank), contemporary blind-stamped calf with author's name on the front cover and date 1533, the back cover panels the name of 'Ioannes Kraft', probably the book's first owner, both covers with medallion roll repeating the date (rebacked, clasps lacking); and 7 others, the majority 16th-century. (11)

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Grapaldus's Lexicon is an encyclopedia of everything that belongs to a Renaissance household, based on and following in true humanistic fashion the ancient classical models. The book is also the first dictionary containing architectural terms. The author was a poet laureate, crowned by Pope Julius II in 1512. Leonicus (1456-1531) was a noted humanist who wished to reconcile Platonic and Aristotelian principles, and Poggio (1380-1459) both a famous scholar and humanist and notorious controversialist and story-teller. His dialogue 'De Avaritia' not only cites the evils of this vice but has some praise for it; in his 'Disceptationes' he deals with history, jurisprudence and medicine, and with the ancient Latin language; the 'Invectives' are directed against Philelphus and Lorenzo Valla; his letter to Nicolaus de Nicolis contains one of the earliest descriptions of the thermal springs at Baden near Zurich with life in the bathing place. The most important work of Lorenzo Valla (1407-57) is the Elegantiarum, one of the earliest Renaissance treatises on grammatical and stylistic Latin attacking the barbarous Latin of the Middle Ages and of his own time.

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