Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library. The Aldine Collection A–C

Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library. The Aldine Collection A–C

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Baglioni, L'arte del predicare, Venice, Torresano, 1562, later vellum

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October 12, 08:25 PM GMT

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300 - 400 USD

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Baglioni, Luca. L'arte del predicare contenuta in tre libri, secondo i precetti rhetorici, composta dal Reverendo Padre Fra Luca Baglione de l'ordine de' Frati Minori osservanti. Venice: Andrea Torresano & brothers, 1562


First edition of Fra Baglione's handbook for novice mendicant preachers, discussing rhetorical principles and classical orators, in particular Cicero, though with less reference to scriptural writings.


Andrea and Girolamo Torresano, two of the sons of Gian Francesco Torresano, were active as booksellers and printers in Venice from 1561; this is the first (and only) imprint naming Andrea Torresano the younger.


8vo (149 x 95 mm). Roman type, 27 lines plus headline. collation: A-P8: 120 leaves (last leaf blank). Woodcut Aldine device on title-page and P7, woodcut initials and cartouche. A few early annotations. (Cut slightly close at head.)


binding: Seventeenth-century vellum (151 x 103 mm), calf lettering-piece, blue edges.


provenance: Stelio Valentini, bookplate of his Aldine collection — Christie's, Rome, 14 June 2001, lot 307 (with 3 other works). acquisition: Purchased via Michel Wittock. references: UCLA 1056; Cataldi Palau 218; Edit16 3881; Renouard 186/10

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