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GONZAGA, Bonaventura - Alcuni Avertimenti nella Vita monacal…
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GONZAGA, Bonaventura - Alcuni Avertimenti nella Vita monacal…
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Estimate €250
Voluntary lot
Description
GONZAGA, Bonaventura - Alcuni Avertimenti nella Vita monacale, utili, et necessarii à ciascheduna vergine di Cristo ... Con la pistola di San Girolomo ad Eustachio del modo di conservare la virginità. Venice, Gabriel Giolito, 1568. In-4, (6) ff, 135 pp, (1) f., register and mark of Giolito, portrait of the author engraved in intaglio, 30 woodcut figs, stamp, half vellum bradel.
BONGI II, 272. First edition. The vignettes bordered with grotesque figures represent biblical scenes. Dedicated to Fenice, the printer's daughter, who had decided to embrace the religious life. Bonaventura Gonzaga, a member of the illustrious Gonzaga family (Reggio Emilia - Parma 1586) was a conventual Friar Minor of the Order of St Francis, regent of the studium in Venice in 1566, then provincial secretary in Tuscany in 1574. He was the author of several ascetic books.
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