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I quattro libri di Gio. Gerson della Imitatione di Christo, del dispregio del mondo, e delle sue vanita : ne' quali tutto l'ordine della vita humana chiaramente si comprende.
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- Format:
- Book
- Standardized Title:
- Imitatio Christi. Italian
- Language:
- Italian
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Catholic Church.
- Meditations--Early works to 1800.
- Meditations.
- Spiritual life--Catholic Church--Early works to 1800.
- Spiritual life.
- Spiritual life--Catholic Church.
- Catholic Church--Doctrines--Early works to 1800.
- Physical Description:
- 12 unnumbered pages, 191 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 22 cm (4to)
- Edition:
- Nuouamente ristampati con le apostille, et con la tauola delle cose degne di memoria.
- Other Title:
- Quattro libri di Giovanni Gerson della Imitatione di Christo
- Imitatione di Christo
- Fingerprint:
- deta 5107 i:ar noch (3) 1558 (R)
- Place of Publication:
- In Vinegia : Appresso Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari, MDLVIII [1558]
- Summary:
- Giolito's second ed. of Remigio's Italian translation of the Imitatio Christi, first published anonymously in 1418. Over the centuries, the Imitatio has been attributed to various writers, including Jean Gerson, although in recent years, the authorship of Thomas à Kempis has been definitively established.
- Notes:
- Signatures: *⁶ A-M⁸.
- Woodcuts: large title vignette (Giolito's phoenix device, with his monogram "GGF", and motto "Semper eadem"); a variation of the device--with phoenix facing the sun--appears on verso of last leaf; large and small white historiated initials; head-pieces.
- Text in roman type; preliminaries and index in italic; printed marginalia.
- Includes index.
- This ed. not in Adams or Brunet.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy bound in full black leather with blind-stamped border on covers; all edges green.
- Cited in:
- Bongi, S. Annali di Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrarri, v. 2, p. 54
- BM STC Italian, 1465-1600, p. 353
- EDIT 16 CNCE 16189
- OCLC:
- 123318756
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