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[Decembrio, Pietro Candido].

Ioanni Boccatii Die Gantz Römisch histori auffs fleissigst un(d) kurzst begriffen. A strikingly beautiful oration by M. T. Ciceroni / for M. Marcellum / to the council of the city of Rome / and to Julio Cesari. All brought together / and Germanized / by Christophorum Brunonem von Hyrtzweil / Baïder Rechten Licentiaten / jetzund Poeten / der löblichen und fürstlichen Stat München. Augsburg, Heinrich Steiner, 1542. fol. 4 unnum. With large woodcut title page, two large woodcuts on the verso of the title page and on the last leaf, 22 woodcuts of text about half the size of a page and 7 decorative woodcuts. Modern half vellum binding. VD16 D-330, not in Adams. - A work by the Italian humanist Pier Candido Decembrio (1392-1477) which was attributed to Boccaccio, here in the first German translation. This was written by the humanist Christoph Bruno, of whom little is known; Luis Vives' "De institutione feminae Christianae" from 1524 ("Von underweysung ayner Christlichen Frauwen, Drey Bücher") was also published by Steiner in 1544 and was similarly illustrated with woodcuts. The work was decorated with woodcuts that Steiner had already used on previous occasions. Some of them are by Hans Weiditz and appeared in the "Trostspiegel" and the "OPfficia". The majority of the woodcuts were used to illustrate the "Scanderbeg" of 1533 and were reused in the Xenophon of 1540; two woodcuts bear Hans Schäuffelein's monogram, including the very beautiful Lucrezia woodcut. The two large woodcuts of the coat of arms are printed here for the first time. The coat of arms of Antonius Sänftl, the dedicatee of the book, is printed on the back of the title page, and that of the translator Christoph Bruno on the last leaf. The title page masked (with some loss to the outer margins). The upper corner of the second leaf with an old repair, another leaf with a repair in the lower margin. Two small (worm?) holes in the centers of the leaves (some of them backed with Japan paper). Some browning throughout. Faint trace of moisture in the upper half of the leaf, through the entire volume. Ownership inscription Per Hierta, Främmestad, dated 1908 on flyleaf. Very rare, like all classic editions in vernacular languages.

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[Decembrio, Pietro Candido].

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