Giovio, Paolo (1483-1552): Le vite de Leon Decimo et d´Adriano VI sommi pontefici, et del cardinal Pompeo Colonna, scritte per mons. Paolo Giovio vescovo di Nocera, & tradotte da m. Lodovico Domenichi – Old and Rare

Giovio, Paolo (1483-1552)

LE VITE DI LEON DECIMO
ET D’ADRIANO VI SOMMI PONTEFICI, ET DEL
CARDINAL POMPEO COLONNA, SCRITTE PER
MONS. PAOLO GIOUIO VESCOUO DI NOCERA &
TRADOTTE DA M. LODOUICO DOMENICHI.
In Fiorenza, appresso Lorenzo Torrentino, 1551.

Description : [in 8vo] – pp. 459, (b), (2b).TORRENTINE
EDITION.

Nice small 8vo edition of the Biographies of the
Popes Leo X , Adrianus VI and of the cardinal Pompeo
Colonna penned by Paolo Giovio (1483-1552) historian and bishop pf Nocera
realized in Florence in the press of Laurentius Torrentinus ( real name Laurens van den
Bleeck) , typographer from Gemert in Brabant ( Netherlands) , active in Firenze and Pescia,
son of Lennart. Turrentinus was also a bookseller in Bologna together with Arnoldo Arlenio,
operating under the business name ” libreria del Thodesco”. Torentinus (1499 -1563) was
invited in Florence by the Duke Cosimo de’ Medici in the year 1546, and the following year in
1547 opened his press in Garbo close to the Church of S. Romolo. Between 1554 and 1555
worked in Pescia. In 1562 was summoned in Mondovì to manage and direct the typography
created there according to the desires of the Duke Emannuel Filiberto. Died in Florence in
1563, the printing press was later on managed by his three sons Leonardo, Romolo and
Bonaventura. The first Edition of Giovio’s Lives was printed 3 years before (1548) in folio
format . Very nice copy in very good antiquarian condition, late XVIII-XIX century italian
binding in half leather with gilt lettering and decoration on spine and marbled paper boards.
Nice copy in very good antiquarian conditions
Cfr.: EDIT 16 Censimento delle Edizioni Italiane del XVI Secolo, Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico ,
ref. CNCE 21181; J.C. BRUNET, Manuel du Libraire et de l’amateur de Livres. IV ed., Paris, (1842), Vol.
II, p.736-737