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Baptiste PLATINE DE CRÉMÔNE. Les Vies faictz et gestes des sainctz peres papes empereurs et Roys de France, Ensemble les Heresies, Scismes, Concilles, Guerres & autres choses dignes de mémoires, advenues tant en la Chrestiente que autres pays estrange, & Barbare Paris, à l'enseigne de Lelephant par François Regnault pour Jehan Real, 1544. In-8, vellum with covers, gilt edges on marble (Binding of the period). Brunet, IV-693 /// (18f.)-466f. (marked CCCCXLX with fancy pagination). 3rd edition of this translation from Latin whose translator remained anonymous. The first one was published in 1519 by Galliot Du Pré. It was followed in 1544 by a second edition, in-8 format, published by François Regnault for Jehan Real and then by this third edition by the same publishers. It is adorned with lettering and small woodcuts in the text. Bartholomew de Sacchi, better known as Platina was born in 1421 in Piadena, near Cremona. He was appointed librarian of the Vatican in 1475, a position he held until his death in 1481. The book is in a contemporary binding, probably his own, with renewed endpapers, title stained, library stamp Sociedad hebraica argentina.
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Baptiste PLATINE DE CRÉMÔNE. Les Vies faictz et gestes des sainctz peres papes empereurs et Roys de France, Ensemble les Heresies, Scismes, Concilles, Guerres & autres choses dignes de mémoires, advenues tant en la Chrestiente que autres pays estrange, & Barbare Paris, à l'enseigne de Lelephant par François Regnault pour Jehan Real, 1544. In-8, vellum with covers, gilt edges on marble (Binding of the period). Brunet, IV-693 /// (18f.)-466f. (marked CCCCXLX with fancy pagination). 3rd edition of this translation from Latin whose translator remained anonymous. The first one was published in 1519 by Galliot Du Pré. It was followed in 1544 by a second edition, in-8 format, published by François Regnault for Jehan Real and then by this third edition by the same publishers. It is adorned with lettering and small woodcuts in the text. Bartholomew de Sacchi, better known as Platina was born in 1421 in Piadena, near Cremona. He was appointed librarian of the Vatican in 1475, a position he held until his death in 1481. The book is in a contemporary binding, probably his own, with renewed endpapers, title stained, library stamp Sociedad hebraica argentina.
