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CAMALDOLI, Monastery. Reformatio Camaldulensis ordinis cum gratis & privilegiis a Leone X. concessis. -Vita beatissimi Romualdi a Petro Damiao descripta. Florence: Filippo Giunta, 29 December 1513.
Two parts in one volume, 4o (198 x 133 mm). Collation: a-b8 A-C8 (C7 and C8 blanks, with later 16th-century papal decrees and stamp added in manuscript) D4; a-e8 (e8 blank). Half-page woodcut on title-page showing Pope Leo X (Kristeller 78); woodcut of St. Romuald of Ravenna (Kristeller 363) on title of last part. (Some minor marginal pale spotting.) 17th-century sheep over wooden boards, figure of a Saint blindstamped at center on sides, 14th-century flyleaves preserved from the previous binding. Provenance: acquired from Goodspeed's Book Shop, 1984.
FIRST EDITION. The Camaldolites a joint order of hermits and cenobites, founded by St. Romuald at the beginning of the eleventh century. "About 1012, after having founded or reformed nearly a hundred unconnected monasteries and hermitages, St. Romuald arrived in the Diocese of Arezzo seeking place for a new hermitage. It was here, according to the legend, that he was met by a certain count called Maldolus. This man, after describing his vision of monks in white habits ascending a ladder to heaven (while he had slept in one of his fields in the mountains), offered this spot to the saint. The field, which was held by Maldolus in fief of the Bishop of Arezzo, was readily accepted by St. Romuald, who built there the famous hermitage afterwards known as Campus Maldoli or Camaldoli. In the same year he received from the count a villa at the foot of the mountains, about two miles below Camaldoli, of which he made the monastery of Fonte Buono. This latter house was intended to serve as infirmary, guest-house, and bursary to the hermitage, in order that the hermits might not be distracted by any worldly business" (Catholic Encyclopedia). BM/STC Italian, p. 139; Sander 1549 and Sander 2290 (Damian).
Two parts in one volume, 4o (198 x 133 mm). Collation: a-b8 A-C8 (C7 and C8 blanks, with later 16th-century papal decrees and stamp added in manuscript) D4; a-e8 (e8 blank). Half-page woodcut on title-page showing Pope Leo X (Kristeller 78); woodcut of St. Romuald of Ravenna (Kristeller 363) on title of last part. (Some minor marginal pale spotting.) 17th-century sheep over wooden boards, figure of a Saint blindstamped at center on sides, 14th-century flyleaves preserved from the previous binding. Provenance: acquired from Goodspeed's Book Shop, 1984.
FIRST EDITION. The Camaldolites a joint order of hermits and cenobites, founded by St. Romuald at the beginning of the eleventh century. "About 1012, after having founded or reformed nearly a hundred unconnected monasteries and hermitages, St. Romuald arrived in the Diocese of Arezzo seeking place for a new hermitage. It was here, according to the legend, that he was met by a certain count called Maldolus. This man, after describing his vision of monks in white habits ascending a ladder to heaven (while he had slept in one of his fields in the mountains), offered this spot to the saint. The field, which was held by Maldolus in fief of the Bishop of Arezzo, was readily accepted by St. Romuald, who built there the famous hermitage afterwards known as Campus Maldoli or Camaldoli. In the same year he received from the count a villa at the foot of the mountains, about two miles below Camaldoli, of which he made the monastery of Fonte Buono. This latter house was intended to serve as infirmary, guest-house, and bursary to the hermitage, in order that the hermits might not be distracted by any worldly business" (Catholic Encyclopedia). BM/STC Italian, p. 139; Sander 1549 and Sander 2290 (Damian).