Author: THOMAS a KEMPIS - Thomaso da Campi - Gio. Gerson Cancelliero di Parigi :
Title: Dell' Imitatione de Giesu , Et del dispreggio del Mondo , del Venerabile D. Thomaso da Campi , Volgarmente detti di Gio. Gerson Cancelliero di Parigi. Di nuovo nella miglior versione ristampati, & diligentamente corretti....
Description: .: Milano, per Francesco , & gli Heredi di Simon Tini , 1585 , in-4°, 20,5 x 14,5 cm, titlepage with woodengraved vignette, with typographical border + (6)nn pp (dedication to Signora Angelica Perpetua) + (226) pp (numbered 1-113) + (6)nn pp (tavola) ; +4,A-Z4(with A for B1),Aa-Ff4, (complete). Bound in old blindstamped leather with traces of two clasps, endpapers renewed. Very fine copy with only a small 19th century note in ink on the upper margin of the title page ; '' EJW 1847''. Rare early Italian translation of Thomas a Kempis' ''Imitatio Christi''. The dedication is signed by Francesco Tini Libraro, dated 24th November 1585, which one leads to suppose that he was the translator. Not in Adams, who lists 4 earlier Italian editions of this work, none in Milan. Not in the catalogue Delaveau-Sordet. USTC 805997. Edit 16 43150.. .

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