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 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 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.....
Second edition of the Dijon mystic Jane of Chantal's discussion of the rules, regulations, and charism of the Visitation nuns, the order she founded as a response to the despair and grief she suffered following the death of her husband. Partly devotional, partly philosophical, Saint Jane's exposition and arguments for.....
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.....
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The only known copy of a 17th-century Bologna printing of the full text of the papal bull De Usuris et de Montibus pietatis, promulgated during the tenth session of the Fifth Lateran Council in Rome, on 4 May 1515. The bull formally condemned the practice of usury, and established the.....
Only edition. The devastating Italian plague of 1629-31 affected every aspect life in Central and Northern Italy, especially in Milan, with the most severe metrics being loss of life (nearly half the population) and the attenuation of the economy. Any country diluted of resources will be at risk of aggression.....
Earliest obtainable edition of the Dutch poet, actor, and man-of-mystery Robert Hennebo's tongue-in-cheek paean to jenever, the national drink of the Netherlands. Probably first written in 1716, following Hennebo's failed military career, and printed in abbreviated form in 1718, when Hennebo had traded in his avocation as an actor for.....