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16585692Venice: Niccolo Pezzana 1658. Very Good. Quarto 23 cm; 50 of 52 788 8 152 pages. Lacks half-title. Four title pages each with Pezzana's woodcut device showing Jove Juno Vulcan and Neptune. Occasional woodcut initials and ornaments. Shoulder notes. Bound in marbled paper with leather backstrip; backstrip decorated and titled in gilt. Binding quite worn with joints tender and boards scuffed edges exposed. Text generally quite good with occasional worm trails the most severe of them in the margins. Pages evenly toned. References: Michel V 161. <br /><br />First Pezzana edition of the popular 16th-century "forest of many stories" by Spain's Pedro Mexia. Nicolò Pezzana purchased the famous Giunti press in 1657 making this one of the first titles issued under his name. The book is a Spanish Renaissance entry into the genre named "Silvae" by Statius but this text falls more into the tradition of Xenophon's Symposium Athenaeus Macrobius and Aulus Gellius that is expansive shapeless episodic with masses of detail and a stupefying variety of topics and narratives. It was incredibly popular in the 16th and 17th centuries reprinted in something like 106 editions in every European language. It was a rich treasure chest for later Renaissance authors such as Miguel Cervantes whose Quixote is also a forest of many tales several of them lifted from Mexia and Christopher Marlowe who pulled his Tamburlaine from its pages. It is now thoroughly obscure. Niccolo Pezzana hardcover
1634200881634-1646. 4to. 4 works in 1 vol. a4e2A-X4Y2; ¹1a4A-C4D2a4A-F4F4 blanka4A-O4. Full contemporary calf rebacked with old spine laid-on corners worn old owner's names on t.p. some foxing a good copy. Gavantius 1569-1638 liturgist and member of the Barnabite order was general of his order and named perpetual consultor to the Congregation of Rites by Pope Urban VIII. Early on he dedicated himself to the study of liturgy and this was his chief work. It traces the historical origin of the rites discusses their mystical significance and gives rules for their observance and obligation of the rubrics. Cardinals Millino Muto and Cajetan approved it and it was dedicated to Urban VIII. Cuvernon was a doctor of the Sorbonne Gavanti: BL 17th Italian 382. Camerini Giunta Venice 1316. unknown
1654M7809Italy : Mattio Cadorini c.1654. Very Good;. Size : 120x175 mm 4.72x6.89 Inches Coloring: Black & White Category: Maps City Maps;Maps Europe Italy; Mattio Cadorini unknown
