CHACON (Alfonso) Vitae et res gestae pontificum romanorum et S....
CHACON (Alfonso)
Vitae et res gestae pontificum romanorum et S. R. E. cardinalium, ab initio nascentis ecclesiae usque ad Clementem IX P. O. M. Alfonso Ciaconii ordinis praedicatorum Romae, De Rubeis, 1677.
4 volumes in folio; illustrated with numerous portraits and vignettes in the text (including arms and shields), beautiful plates, including fold-outs, out of text. Text framed on two columns, some pages slightly browned.
Bound in Italian honey-coloured vellum of the period, spine ribbed, red title and endpapers, handwritten notes on spine, red speckled edges.
Superb and important edition of the Lives of the Pontiffs by the Spanish Dominican Father Alfonso Chacón. The author, historian, philologist and scholar, called to Rome by Pius V in October 1566 as a petty penitentiary of St. Peter's Basilica, was unable to complete his work, later concluded by Francisco Morales Cabrera with the lives of the popes from Alexander VI to Clement VIII and published in 1601.
The work met with considerable success and was later reprinted with the addition of biographies of the successive popes by Andrea Vittorelli, Ferdinando Ughelli, Girolamo Aleandro, Luca Wadding, Cesare Becilli and brought to Clement IX by Oldoini who published the 1677 edition. In 1751, finally, two more volumes were published, by Mario Guarnacci, who brought the work up to Clement XII.
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CHACON (Alfonso)
Vitae et res gestae pontificum romanorum et S. R. E. cardinalium, ab initio nascentis ecclesiae usque ad Clementem IX P. O. M. Alfonso Ciaconii ordinis praedicatorum Romae, De Rubeis, 1677.
4 volumes in folio; illustrated with numerous portraits and vignettes in the text (including arms and shields), beautiful plates, including fold-outs, out of text. Text framed on two columns, some pages slightly browned.
Bound in Italian honey-coloured vellum of the period, spine ribbed, red title and endpapers, handwritten notes on spine, red speckled edges.
Superb and important edition of the Lives of the Pontiffs by the Spanish Dominican Father Alfonso Chacón. The author, historian, philologist and scholar, called to Rome by Pius V in October 1566 as a petty penitentiary of St. Peter's Basilica, was unable to complete his work, later concluded by Francisco Morales Cabrera with the lives of the popes from Alexander VI to Clement VIII and published in 1601.
The work met with considerable success and was later reprinted with the addition of biographies of the successive popes by Andrea Vittorelli, Ferdinando Ughelli, Girolamo Aleandro, Luca Wadding, Cesare Becilli and brought to Clement IX by Oldoini who published the 1677 edition. In 1751, finally, two more volumes were published, by Mario Guarnacci, who brought the work up to Clement XII.
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