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GIOVIO, Paolo

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Giovio, or Paul Jove, was one of the most important historians during the early 16th-century. He was fascinated by Plutarch’s ‘Lives’, so much so that he created his own work which rivaled the ancient masterpiece. Giovio’s ‘Historiarum sui Temporis’ is a collection of biographical sketches of lives of famous men – church fathers, politicians, historians, authors, and philosophers. This edition includes names such as:

  • Erasmus of Rotterdam
  • Niccolo Machiavelli
  • Baldassare Castiglione
  • Ludovico Ariosto
  • Poliziano – Agnolo Ambrogini
  • Lorenzo di Medici
  • Marcellus Vergilius
  • Albertus Magnus
  • Thomas More

 

This 1559 Italian edition was published in Venice and translated from the original Latin by Hippolito Orio.

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1559 Giovio FAMOUS Lives Erasmus Machiavelli Albert Magnus Thomas More Medici

 

Giovio, or Paul Jove, was one of the most important historians during the early 16th-century. He was fascinated by Plutarch’s ‘Lives’, so much so that he created his own work which rivaled the ancient masterpiece. Giovio’s ‘Historiarum sui Temporis’ is a collection of biographical sketches of lives of famous men – church fathers, politicians, historians, authors, and philosophers. This edition includes names such as:

  • Erasmus of Rotterdam
  • Niccolo Machiavelli
  • Baldassare Castiglione
  • Ludovico Ariosto
  • Poliziano – Agnolo Ambrogini
  • Lorenzo di Medici
  • Marcellus Vergilius
  • Albertus Magnus
  • Thomas More

 

This 1559 Italian edition was published in Venice and translated from the original Latin by Hippolito Orio.

 

Item number: #8607

Price: $795

 

GIOVIO, Paolo

 

Le Iscrittioni poste sotto le vere imagini degli huomini famosi in lettere, di mons. Paolo Giovio … tradotte di latino in volgare da Hippolito Orio …

 

Venezia, appresso Francesco II Bindoni, 1559.

 

Details:

  • Collation: Complete with all pages
    • [16], 285, [1]
  • References: USTC 833237; Edit16 21228;
  • Language: Italian
  • Binding: Vellum; tight & secure
  • Size: ~6in X 4in (15cm x 10cm)

 

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8607

Categories

Philosophy

European History

Religion

Authors

GIOVIO, Paolo

Printing Date

16th Century

Language

Italian

Binding

Vellum

Book Condition

Excellent

Collation

Complete