CAMPANUS Johannes Antonius :

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CAMPANUS Johannes Antonius :
Opera omnia In-folio in full cream vellum, plate with gold border, smooth spine, gold lettering and borders "Joannis / Antonii / Campanii / 1495", three yellow edges. Impr. Rome, Eucharius Silber (initials HAE: Eucharius Argenteus Herbipolensis) 26 March 1495 Ed. Marcus Ferno Printed in Roman typeface, one column of 56 lines, initials. Title page illustrated with a large woodcut representing a bell First edition of the works of the humanist philosopher Giannantonio Campano (Campanus in Latin). The biography of Campanus by Ferno precedes his epistles, philosophical and religious treatises that a hand has commented in the margin, comments sometimes cut by the binder, his elegy of Pope Pius II, his biography of Andrea Braccio Fortebracci, his Latin epigrams... Without the erratum of Ferno at the end of the volume. Ex-libris of Alan Herbert Stenning. A few yellowed pages, wormholes on the first two leaves, a few restorations otherwise overall fresh interior First edition of the works of Giovanni Antonio Campani, historian and bishop of Cotrone. He was celebrated for his orations, poems and epistles. Among the most important humanists of his time, he also collaborated with the press of Ulrich Hans in Rome and taught at the Florentine Academy.
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