1530 Lives of Popes Platina Catholic Church Sacchi PAGAN Halley Comet Sixtus II

1530 Lives of Popes Platina Catholic Church Sacchi PAGAN Halley Comet Sixtus II

 

The standard reference work on papal history!

 

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. Not only was this a famous papal reference, but it was one of the first printed works to contain mention of Halley’s Comet. This became an important inclusion because this work often was the lynchpin in the conflict between religion and science.

 

This 1530 edition features the printer’s device of Jean Petit

 

Item number: #3059

Price: $1500

 

SACCHI, Bartolomea [Platina]

 

̔Bap. Platinæ Cremonensis de vita et moribus summorum Põtificum historia, cui aliorũ omnium qui post Platinã vixerũt ad hæc vsque tempora, Põtificum res gestæ sunt additæ: intersertisque sunt canones institutorũ cœnobitarū qui maximopere desiderabantur, adiecta etiam pontificum nomẽclatura.

 

[Parisijs] : In ædibus Ioannis Parui, M.D.XXX. [1530]

 

Details:

• Foliation: Complete with all pages
  • ccclxviii (368), [4]
  • Signatures: a-z⁸ &⁸ A-Z⁸ &⁸
• References: USTC 146137; FB 83067; Adams P 1410
• Language: Latin
• Binding: Vellum; tight & secure
• Size: ~7in X 5in (18cm x 13cm)
• Very rare with no other example for sale worldwide

 

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