COLLENUCCIO, Pandolfo Apologi quatuor. I Agenoria…II Misopenes…III Alithia…IIII Bombarda Strassburg in aedibus Matthiae Schurerij 1511
4to. 36ff. A little very light browning, in modern old-style limp vellum.
FIRST EDITION of these four little philosophical essays dedicated to Ercole I d’Este and edited by Beatus Rhenanus with numerous notes on the title and in the text in a contemporary educated German hand. Pandolfo Collenuccio (1444-1504), celebrated author, humanist, lawyer and politician, occupied the position of podestà (mayor) in several cities in the Venetian territories and showed himself to be an eloquent orator and an able negotiator in the various diplomatic missions with which he was charged. In his later years he retired to his native Pesaro where he hoped to end his days peacefully, but was thrown into prison and strangled on the orders of Giovanni Sforza, then master of the town, on the trumped up charge of having conducted a treasonable correspondance with Cesare Borgia. His erudition was enormous and he wrote books on such diverse subjects as the viper, a history of Naples, the education of the ancients and a biblical comedy.Adams C2341; RLIN locates only the Cambridge University copy; not in OCLC
£1500
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