1562 – Lives of the Popes – Platina | Onofrio Panvivio Cologne, Leather Folio

Bartolomeo Sacchi, or Platina, was a 15th-century Italian humanist who is most remembered for his book Vitae Pontificum, or Lives of the Popes. Lives was an important work dedicated to the papacy of important Catholic popes, but Platina wrote the work through the lens of Roman history with obvious themes of paganism. This book was the first systematic handbook on papal history and praises the punishment of heresy throughout the Catholic Church. This 1562 edition of Platina was published in Cologne by Cholinum. It is notable for being revised and edited by Onofrio Panvinio.

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Bap. Platinae … opus de vitis ac gestis summorum pontificum … rerum gestarum eorum Pontificum
• Author(s): Bartolomeo Sacchi
• Contributor(s): Onofrio Panvinio (Editor)
• Publisher: Apud Maternum Cholinum, Coloniae
• Edition: 1562 edition.
  • First Panvivio edition published in Cologne, published for the Northern Europe audience based on the 1562 Venice edition
• Binding: Full leather
• Format: Folio, single volume
• Size:  12 in x 8 in (30.5 cm x 20 cm)
• Collation: [20], 385 [i.e. 399] p., [1], 98, [26] p
• Contents Include:
  • Lives of the Popes, translated by Panvinio
• Provenance: signed – Ex libris [?] Conuentus Bruxellen Carmel. Ecca.
• Reference(s): USTC 615101

Condition:

Good. Full leather with a professionally restored leather spine, original leather boards retained. Corners show significant wear and loss. Pages generally clean with mild age toning.

Why Collect This?

• Panvinio edited sixteenth-century edition
• Strong fit for Renaissance humanism collectors

Item Number: #50060