Lives of the Popes – Platina – 1518 | Venetian Fontaneto Post-Incunable

Bartolomeo Sacchi (Platina)

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1518 Lives of Popes by Platina, with title woodcut and added essays. Venetian post-incunable in modern calf binding.

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The 1518 Lives of Popes Platina is an early sixteenth-century Venetian printing of Bartolomeo Sacchi’s biographical work on the papacy. Known by his humanist name Platina, Sacchi was one of the first to structure papal history as a continuous narrative. This edition was printed by Gulielmus de Fontaneto and includes not only the core De vitis pontificum but also Platina’s philosophical essays Contra Amores and Falso et vero bono, along with a work by Raffaello Maffei concerning four recent pontiffs. The book features a large title woodcut showing Platina kneeling before the Pope, who is surrounded by cardinals.

 

Bibliographic Details

  • Title: Jn hoc volumine hec continentur Platyne De vitis maxi. ponti. historia periocunda Diligenter recognita: [&] nunc tantum integre impressa. Raphaellis Volaterrani historia. De vita quattuor maxi. ponti nuper edita: [&] in fine posita.
  • Author(s): Bartolomeo Sacchi (Platina)
  • Contributor(s): Raffaello Maffei (Author)
  • Publisher: Venetiis [Venècia] : per Gulielmum de Fontaneto de Monteferrato
  • Edition: 15 December 1518
  • Format: Folio, single volume
  • Binding: Modern full calf
  • Size: 12.5 in x 8.5 in (31.5 cm x 21.5 cm)
  • Collation: CCXXV, (i.e., 223), [1]; Signatures: a–u8, x6, A–F8, G10
  • Illustrations: One large title woodcut depicting Platina before the Pope
  • Contents Include:
    • De vitis pontificum (Lives of the Popes)
    • Contra Amores
    • Falso et vero bono
    • De vita quattuor Maximi Pontifici by Raffaello Maffei
  • Reference(s): USTC 807519; EDIT 16 37617; Adams P141

 

Condition:

This copy is bound in modern full calf in a style appropriate to early Renaissance folios, with marbled page edges. The binding is clean and unworn. The text block is complete. Leaves are mostly clean with marginalia mostly in the second half of the volume; margins generous, and gatherings firm. The paper exhibits consistent age-toning; first three leaves repaired for conservation with age-appropriate materials.

 

Why Collect This?

  • Post-incunable edition of an early papal chronicle
  • Includes additional texts by Platina not always present in earlier issues
  • Features a full-page woodcut showing Platina and the Pope
  • Appeals to collectors of early ecclesiastical history and Renaissance political writing

Categories

Literature

Philosophy

European History

Religion

Authors

Bartolomeo Sacchi (Platina)

Printing Date

16th Century

Language

Latin

Binding

Leather

Book Condition

Near Fine

Collation

Complete

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