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GREGORY IX, Pope. Decretales epistolae summorum pontificum. A Gregorio nono pontifice maximo collectae. Lyon: Guillaume Rouille, 1555.
Volume 2 (only), 8o (119 x 77 mm). Woodcut printer's device on title, ruled in red. Parisian late 16th-century red morocco gilt, sides with grounds of oval tools of different flowers interspersed with smaller flower tools, enclosed within borders of leafy sprays, lower cover with gilt flower device enclosed by motto [Olivier 65], spine decorated with floral tools, lettered in central cartouche, gilt edges (oval armorial device on upper cover replaced with oval leather inset, joints and spine ends reinforced). Provenance: Pietro Duodo (1554-1611, binding).
A BINDING FROM THE FRENCH LIBRARY OF THE SCHOLAR AND DIPLOMAT PIETRO DUODO. Duodo was born to a patrician family in Padua, where he studied under the celebrated philosopher Francesco Piccolomini. He then turned to a diplomatic career, as the Venetian Republic's ambassador to (amongst others), Rudolf II, Henri IV and James I, before becoming governor of Padua in 1607, where he founded the Accademia Delia.
The present copy was part of a library assembled during his ambassadorship to King Henri IV in Paris, between late 1594 and 1597; of this library about 90 works in 133 volumes are known. Duodo's French library appears to have been assembled as a portable collection, since the format of all the volumes known is either octavo or smaller. The different subjects within the collection were distinguished by the color of their bindings: olive morocco for literature, red morocco for theology (as here), philosophy, history and law.
Volume 2 (only), 8
A BINDING FROM THE FRENCH LIBRARY OF THE SCHOLAR AND DIPLOMAT PIETRO DUODO. Duodo was born to a patrician family in Padua, where he studied under the celebrated philosopher Francesco Piccolomini. He then turned to a diplomatic career, as the Venetian Republic's ambassador to (amongst others), Rudolf II, Henri IV and James I, before becoming governor of Padua in 1607, where he founded the Accademia Delia.
The present copy was part of a library assembled during his ambassadorship to King Henri IV in Paris, between late 1594 and 1597; of this library about 90 works in 133 volumes are known. Duodo's French library appears to have been assembled as a portable collection, since the format of all the volumes known is either octavo or smaller. The different subjects within the collection were distinguished by the color of their bindings: olive morocco for literature, red morocco for theology (as here), philosophy, history and law.