Rome: Joannes de Besicken, 1503.
CALENZIO, Elisio [1430-1503] Opuſcula Eliſii Calentii Poetæ Clariſſimi: | quæ in hoc uolumine contentitur. || Elegiarum Aurumpiæ ad Colorium. libri.iii. | Epigrammaton libellus. | Epiſtolarum ad Hiaracum lib.iii | Hectoris horrenda apparitio.lib.i. | De bello Ranarum.lib.iii. | Satyra contra Poetas. | Satyra ad Longum q[uod].....
Paris? 1578?
A request directed to Henri III of France to reduce the tax burden on the good subjects of Burgundy, arguing by virtue of case studies of suffering Burgundians that existing taxes and obligatory tributes are too large a strain on the tax base. The treshumble request is framed.....
Bologna: Alessandro Benacci, c1559.
Only Edition. Bolognese poet Pierluigi Tarinti's first-person verse narrative, in traditional Dantean terza rima, recounts the author's horseback journey from Bologna to Scandiano (via Modena) one fine day "in the month which comes after August." Tarinti, who addresses his brother, plans a leisurely trip—partly because he.....
Paris: Jehan Andre, 1535.
❧Ordonnances | Nouuelles faictes par la court / tant | sur le faict de la pollice / que des poures mendicans. Auecques | celles faictes par le roy no= | stre sire sur la pollice des | bledz / Publiees a | Paris au moys |.....
Florence: Lorenzo Torrentino, 1551.
The remarkable case of young Margaretha Weiss [1529-?], a girl from the village of Rode outside of Speyer, who, for three years following her tenth birthday, reportedly neither ate nor drank, yet seemed to grow more or less normally, play with her friends, talk, laugh, and.....
Strasbourg: Joannes Knobloch, 1516.
Popular German-language epitome of Bolognese astrologer and chiromancer Bartolommeo della Rocca Cocles's Chiromantie ac physionomie anastasis. Cocles discusses, in 23 short chapters, the fundamentals of physiognomy: the nature of the four principal "complexions" (humors), and how to determine the character of a person by not just.....
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Wittenberg: Hans Lufft, 1531.
Luther's sermon on angels, preached on the occasion of Michaelmas, 29 September 1530, was ostensibly about the Archangel Michael and the divine college of angels' reverence for God in Matthew 18.10, but the substance of the sermon was actually about fallen angels, in particular the Devil.....
Cologne: 1558.
First published in two books in 1549, and enlarged to three in 1552, Dedekind's elegiac poem concerns a certain St. Grobian, a personage first envisioned half a century before by Sebastian Brant as a the patron saint of coarse manners. In Dedekind's satiric masterpiece, St. Grobian teaches students.....
Paris: Robert Estienne, 1568. Octavo, 159 x 97 x 1 mm; A4, [8] pp. Binding of old, heavy, fawn paper wraps, slightly worn. Leaves toned, small hole in tail gutter margin, not near text, evidence of guarding to gutter margins. At one time a member of a Sammelband; ink numbering.....
Wittenberg: Josef Klug, 1529.
Caspar Huberinus, a Bavarian transplant to Augsburg, was a late but ardent supporter of Luther and the Protestant cause: Huberinus's first book, a kind of commiseration and admission of confraternity with "secret Protestants"—incipient reformers still in the closet, as it were—did not appear until 1525. The.....