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[POPES]. PLATINA, [Bartolomeo] (1421-1481). Le vite di tutti i pontefici da S. Piero in Qua, Ridotte in Epitome du Tomaso Costo.Secondi la Descrizzion

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[POPES]. PLATINA, [Bartolomeo] (1421-1481). Le vite di tutti i pontefici da S. Piero in Qua, Ridotte in Epitome du Tomaso Costo.Secondi la Descrizzione del Platina, Corretta dal Panvinio. Venice: Barnardo Basa & Barezzo Barezzi, 1592. 8vo. [40], 320 pp. Woodcut title-page device, woodcut portrait of Platina, woodcut scene on p. 1, and approximately 240 woodcut portraits of the Popes with their coats-of-arms. Contemporary limp vellum. FIRST EDITION THUS OF THIS PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED BIOGRAPHY OF THE POPES.

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Binding worn, soiled, front joint chipped, first two gutters after front hinge cracked, some occasional creasing, light soiling in text, last few leaves with some old dampstaining at top inner margin and bottom outer margin. Otherwise a very good copy.

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First edition edited by Tomaso Costo (ca. 1545-1613), the Neapolitan-born poet, classicist, and member of the Accademia della Crusca. He used the edition of Platina that had been corrected by Onofrio Panvinio (1529-1568). This is a particularly attractive small illustrated edition. Platina's (1421-1481) work originally appeared in 1474. It is particularly prized for its accounts of the Popes of his own era. Adams C2755 (listed under Costo). BM Italian STC, p. 596. 

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