Author: ADRIANUS VI: GIOVIO, PAULO. Title: De vita Leonis Decimi Pont.Max. libri quatuor. His ordine temporum accesserunt Hadriani Sexti Pont.Max. et Pompeii Columnae cardinalis vitae.
Description: Florence, Laurentius Torrentinus, February 1549. Folio. (34, 5x21, 5 cm.). [viii], 205, (1 blank) pp. With title-page & title-vignette (Medici arms). New old-style overlapping vellum, new endpapers. (Title page stained, a bit frayed, a few small holes in title-page, without loss. Old stamp on title-page. Edges slightly foxed. Some moulding in the margin of the first part. Last blank missing. Copy with ample margins) ¶ The Life of Hadrian VI covers pages 113-152. First edition of this VERY EARLY BIOGRAPHY OF THE DUTCH POPE. Paolo Giovio wrote this Life at the instigation of cardinal William of Enckenvoirt, executor of Hadrians testament. ¶ Adams G689.
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