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CHIARI, Isidoro (1495-1555). De modo diuitiis adhibendo homini christiano ... ad ciues Brixianos oratio. Milan: Francesco Minizio Calvo, 1540. 4° (199 x 141mm). Title within a woodcut architectural border. 19th-century wrappers.
Only edition of this oration to the citizens of Brescia in which the author deals with the vexed question of how much wealth Christians may possess without it affecting their chances of going to heaven. The recto of the last leaf contains two poems, including one by Ottaviano Arcimboldi, the brother of the painter. A FINE PIECE OF PRINTING BY F.M. CALVO USING CASTIGLIONI'S BEAUTIFUL ITALIC TYPE. OCLC locates 3 copies in America.
La felicissima entrata della Serenissima Regina di Spagna, Donna Margarita d'Austria, nella città di Ferrara...MDXCVII. Ferrara, Vittorio Bandini, [1598], 4° (197 x 142mm.) Title within a woodcut historiated border with the arms of the Queen of Spain. (Top margins cut close just shaving the title-border). Modern boards. FIRST EDITION of one of several state visits to Ferrara in 1598 which, since the expulsion of the illegitimate Cesare d'Este earlier in the year, had reverted to the Papal States. The author describes in detail the Queen's clothes, the triumphal arches and columns (erected in her honour) and the festivities which took place over the next four days. Adams M-571.
With 9 other volumes in Italian by Boccaccio and others.
Only edition of this oration to the citizens of Brescia in which the author deals with the vexed question of how much wealth Christians may possess without it affecting their chances of going to heaven. The recto of the last leaf contains two poems, including one by Ottaviano Arcimboldi, the brother of the painter. A FINE PIECE OF PRINTING BY F.M. CALVO USING CASTIGLIONI'S BEAUTIFUL ITALIC TYPE. OCLC locates 3 copies in America.
La felicissima entrata della Serenissima Regina di Spagna, Donna Margarita d'Austria, nella città di Ferrara...MDXCVII. Ferrara, Vittorio Bandini, [1598], 4° (197 x 142mm.) Title within a woodcut historiated border with the arms of the Queen of Spain. (Top margins cut close just shaving the title-border). Modern boards. FIRST EDITION of one of several state visits to Ferrara in 1598 which, since the expulsion of the illegitimate Cesare d'Este earlier in the year, had reverted to the Papal States. The author describes in detail the Queen's clothes, the triumphal arches and columns (erected in her honour) and the festivities which took place over the next four days. Adams M-571.
With 9 other volumes in Italian by Boccaccio and others.
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