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CALIXTUS PLACENTINUS (Calisto da Piacenza 1484-1552). Cento soliloqui del verbo diddiocioe, cinquanta del verbo increato, & cinquanta del verbo incarnate, per contentezza spirituale d'ogni vero Christiano dale sacre scritture antiche & nuo. Florence: Torrentino, 1550.
8o (157 x 100 mm). (Light browning and staining). Venetian binding ca. 1556 by Anthoni Lodewijk, gold tooled dark red morocco, over wooden boards, gilt and blind fillet border, central sunburst design around circles and doted lines and a single cinquefoil at center, within an arabesque design maid up of a semicircle, azurd and floral tools, spine in five compartments, gilt and gauffered edges (restoration to spine ends and corners, missing ties). Provenance: Agenais, Franciscan Tertiaries (ownership inscription on title); Savolhan (?) of Golfech (ownership inscription on title); Leonis S. Olschki (bookplate).
THE BINDING IS A RARE EXAMPLE OF ANTHONI LODEWIJK'S "MATURE VENETIAN STYLE" (see Hobson/Culot 15). Anthoni Lodewijk -- his conjectural Flemish name; his real name is unknown -- is almost the only Renaissance bookbinder to have worked virtually exclusively for a single client. An Enea Vico in Vienna contains the inscription "Antonius Lodoicus Flander ligavit Venetiis." Dr. Ilse Schunke ("Antonius Lodoicus Flander ligavit Venetiis," Fund og Forskning, 5/6, 1958-9, 193-207) established that the man in question must be identical with the Anthoni Ludwig documented as working in Augsburg for the great German collector Johann Jakob Fugger in a completely Italianate style. The evidence suggests that Fugger sent the young Fleming to Venice to learn how to bind and gilt-tool in the Venetian way. During the four years or so that he spent in Venice he bound 58 books, both manuscript and printed, for Fugger, but only a small number for other owners (13 listed by Hobson, Renaissance Book Collecting, app. 9). He was evidently commended by Fugger to the Venetian printer-publisher Gabriele Giolito; he learned his trade from the "Fugger Binder," the craftsman chiefly used by Giolito; and Giolito employed him to bind presentation copies to the Duchess of Urbino and to Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, Bishop of Arras. Back in Augsburg he continued to produce bindings entirely Venetian in appearance (one is reproduced in G.D. Hobson's "German Renaissance Patrons of Bookbinding," II, The Book Collector, 1954, 255, pl. II) and is believed to have taught Jakob Krause how to decorate book-covers, in the Italian manner. See Wittock sale 7 July 2004 lot 97 for a similar binding.
In 1532 Pope Clemens VII made Calisto da Piacenza the head of Inquisition in all of Italy. Not in Adams, BMC. Very rare.
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THE BINDING IS A RARE EXAMPLE OF ANTHONI LODEWIJK'S "MATURE VENETIAN STYLE" (see Hobson/Culot 15). Anthoni Lodewijk -- his conjectural Flemish name; his real name is unknown -- is almost the only Renaissance bookbinder to have worked virtually exclusively for a single client. An Enea Vico in Vienna contains the inscription "Antonius Lodoicus Flander ligavit Venetiis." Dr. Ilse Schunke ("Antonius Lodoicus Flander ligavit Venetiis," Fund og Forskning, 5/6, 1958-9, 193-207) established that the man in question must be identical with the Anthoni Ludwig documented as working in Augsburg for the great German collector Johann Jakob Fugger in a completely Italianate style. The evidence suggests that Fugger sent the young Fleming to Venice to learn how to bind and gilt-tool in the Venetian way. During the four years or so that he spent in Venice he bound 58 books, both manuscript and printed, for Fugger, but only a small number for other owners (13 listed by Hobson, Renaissance Book Collecting, app. 9). He was evidently commended by Fugger to the Venetian printer-publisher Gabriele Giolito; he learned his trade from the "Fugger Binder," the craftsman chiefly used by Giolito; and Giolito employed him to bind presentation copies to the Duchess of Urbino and to Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, Bishop of Arras. Back in Augsburg he continued to produce bindings entirely Venetian in appearance (one is reproduced in G.D. Hobson's "German Renaissance Patrons of Bookbinding," II, The Book Collector, 1954, 255, pl. II) and is believed to have taught Jakob Krause how to decorate book-covers, in the Italian manner. See Wittock sale 7 July 2004 lot 97 for a similar binding.
In 1532 Pope Clemens VII made Calisto da Piacenza the head of Inquisition in all of Italy. Not in Adams, BMC. Very rare.