1516 1st Edtn With Provenance AD MORTALIUM OBLECTATIONEM AUCTORIS EFFIGIEM By Baptista Mantuanus Very Good

1516 1st Edition , With Provenance

AD MORTALIUM OBLECTATIONEM AUCTORIS EFFIGIEM
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By Baptista Mantuanus

Author Bio: Baptista Spagnuoli Mantuanus, O.Carm (Italian: Battista Mantovano, English: Battista the Mantuan or simply Mantuan; also known as Johannes Baptista Spagnolo; 17 April 1447 – 22 March 1516) was an Italian Carmelite reformer, humanist, and poet.

Provenance: Bookplate of Franz Pollack von Parnau

Synopsis: Johannes Baptista Spagnoli, called Baptista Mantuanus (1447–1516)—the celebrated Carmelite humanist and Latin poet—here appears in a handsome Lyon edition published in the year of his death (1516). The volume gathers several of his late polemical and devotional pieces together with historical and occasional poems. Chief contents include the “Ad mortalium oblectationem, auctoris effigiem …” (a programmatic preface with Mantuan’s portrait), the Dialogus and Epistola contra calumniatores (defences of the author and the Carmelite order), the hagiographic Vita Sancti Blasii, the political epic Bellum Venetum on the War of the League of Cambrai (1509), shorter pieces Ad Insubres and Ad Elisam Bellam, and a cycle of rustic/georgic poems under the heading Agellariorum. Printed in red and black, with large woodcut roundel portraits of Mantuan and a striking device (“GORGONIVS HEROS – FATORVM IMPERIO”), this early sixteenth-century collection shows Mantuan’s range—from humanist controversy and ecclesiastical defence to hagiography, public history and neo-Vergilian country verse—and marks his transition from Quattrocento moral poet to a staple of early modern schoolrooms.

Binding: Vellum, Octavo (Standard) (8vo 6 × 9 in 152 × 229 mm )
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Collation: pp.
Language: Latin

Published By: Bernardi Lescuyer, Lyon

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Very Good - 3 parts in 1, Lyon: Bernardi Lescuyer, 1516, woodcut portrait to titles (initial title with old ink stamp initials, cropped at foot and repaired), printer's woodcut devices present, few repairs to last few leaves, some browning and occasional damp-stains, modern vellum, 8vo From the library of Franz Pollack von Parnau (1903-1981), Viennese industrialist and book collector, owner of a significant library at the Palais Pollack-Parnau on Schwarzenbergplatz, his bookplate on the front pastedown..

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