Onofrio

1568 · B5638 — Rome: Ant. Lafrerij formeis c. 1568. Lacks title two leaves of text and two engraved portraits of Popes Bonifacius IX and Xystus IV. A very good example of this scarce 16th century Italian illustrated book with text and plates clean and crisp. Edition: First Edition. Binding: Recent half calf with brownish marbled boards. Spine with four raised bands and gilt title on 2. Notes: Text in Latin. A 16th century work detailing the lives Popes. Portraits of Urbanus VI Innocentius VII Innocentius VIII Gregorius XII Alexander V Alexander VI Ioannes XXIII Martinus V Eugenius IIII Felix IIII Nicolaus V Calixtus III Pius II Pius III Pius IV Pius V Paulus II Paulus III Paulus IV Iulius II Iulius III Leo X Adrianus VI Clemens VII Marcellus II. They are engraved by Antoine Lafrery who based his work on portraits done by Raphael Titian and others. Short accounts of their lives are on the versos. <br><br>The erudite Augustinian Onofrio Panvinio or Onuphrius Panvinius 1529-1568 was an Italian historian and antiquary who was librarian to Cardinal Alessandro Farnese. He was recognized as one of the greatest church historians and archaeologists of his time. The scholarly printer Paulus Manutius called him antiquitatis helluo "a glutton for antiquity" and Julius Caesar Scaliger styled him pater omnis historiae "father of all history". <br><br>Antonio Lafreri or Antoine Lafréry 1512-1577 was a French Italian engraver cartographer and publisher. Of French origin - born in Franche-Comté- Lafreri settled in Rome around 1540. His most important work is the so-called Atlases of Lafreri published in Rome in 1570 one of the first organic collection of printed maps. The renowned Lafrery family members were important 16th century engravers and publishers of maps and prints. Their maps are among the most sought after examples of 16th century map makers of Europe. <br> Size: Quarto 284x202mm Illustration: With 25 of 27 copper engraved portraits of popes References: Ruscelli no. 449; Mortimer Harvard College Library 356; Roland Lafrery p. 374; Pages: 1-25 unpaginated copper engravings with accompanying text on versos Category: Book Europe Italy; Book Plate Books General; Book Religious Christianity; Book Early Printed 1500; Ant. Lafrerij formeis hardcover