Author: GIOVIO, Paolo.
Title: Le vite di Leon decimo et d'Adriano VI. sommi pontifici, et del Cardinal Pompeo Colonna . . .tradotte da M. Lodovico Domenichi.
Description: Fiorenza: appresso Lorenzo Torrentino, 1551. 8vo. Signed A-Ff in eights (Ff7 and Ff8 blanks). 459p; several engraved initials in text. 18th-century parchment with signs of very slight worming (confined to covers); gilt spine title; green-edged leaves; small hole on title repaired without loss of text; tear in front end paper. Two small library stamps on title (both illegible and one partially overlaid with patch of paper); ownership inscription on front free endpaper of an Italian cleric, dated 1773. ***** This edition not in Adams (who gives Latin editions from same press, 1549 and 1551, and an Italian edition, Venice, 1557).

Keywords: Catholic Church, popes, Leo X, Hadrian VI, antiquarian


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