Paris: Didier Maheu for Pierre du Pin, 1534.
Only edition of the earliest printed document of the largest and most venerated of all Parisian brotherhoods, the Grand Confraternity of Notre Dame, whose roots reach to the eleventh century. The grande confrérie Notre-Dame, a pious, tightknit group that advocated a life.....
Cologne: Ulrich Zel, 1470.
Incipit Sermo Sancti Bernhardini. Or- | dinis fratrum minorum. De gloriosa vir- | gine Maria. [Cologne: Ulrich Zel, not after 10.X.1470]
The Franciscan friar St. Bernardine of Siena was so well known as a preacher in early fifteenth-century Italy that at least three biographies and hagiographies.....
Venice: Georgius Arrivabenis, 1498.
First edition. Jussi Hanska, professor of history and philosophy at Tampere University, Finland, calls Sermon XL in Bernadino de' Busti's collection of Easter sermons a "how to survive a plague" manual, which imparts a great deal of practical information and pragmatic advice to his Pavia congregation.....
Paris: Galliot du Pré, 1532.
Following his victory in the Battle of Marignano in September, 1515, Francis I of France, barely 21 years of age, negotiated with Pope Leo X to form what would become known as the Concordat of Bologna. It was signed in Rome on August 18, 1516.....