First edition of the collected correspondence of humanist and papal reformer Gregorio Cortese, edited and published posthumously by his niece, Hersilia Cortese del Monte, and prefaced by her warm, personal letter to the dedicatee, Ugo Boncompagni, or Pope Gregory XIII. Hersilia, forced into marriage at 22 and widowed at age.....
First edition of the earliest Castilian grammar written for the use of Francophones, with discussions of usage, diction, pronunciation, and orthography. The compact work was composed anonymously, but Alfred Morel-Fatio, the premier Hispanist in France at the turn of the 20th century, notes that an incomplete exemplar of La Parfaite.....
First Landshut edition of Leipzig theologian Hieronymus Dungersheym's first book. His Tractatus is one of the first books1 on homiletics—the art of writing sermons. Dungersheym divides his tract into three basic parts. The first asserts that an aspiring preacher should be highly educated on the subjects upon which he wishes.....
Two works, bound together, on the customary law of Hainaut; the first on the pays et côte, and the second on the capital city of Mons. Both were printed with royal privilege by Jehan Loë and his son Laurent at Hainaut in 1553. The earliest laws of Hainaut were outlined.....