Carcano, Michael de (1427-1484) Sermonarium de Peccatis per Adventum et per Duas Quadragesimas. Venice: Franciscus Renner, de Heilbronn

Carcano, Michael de (1427-1484) Sermonarium de Peccatis per Adventum et per Duas Quadragesimas. Venice: Franciscus Renner, de Heilbronn, and Nicolaus de Frankfordia, 1476. Folio & quarto (partly printed on median paper in quarto, cut in half before printing, the remainder printed in folio on half-median paper, a size smaller than chancery), part one only, of a work printed in two parts, 285 of 286 leaves, text in gothic type, in two columns, rubricated by hand in red and blue, the author's first published work, bound in later full parchment over boards, purchased from William Salloch, 9 x 6 1/4 in.

Michael de Carcano founded the Montes Pietatius banking system in Perugia with Bernardine of Feltre in 1461. In these sermons, he expounds on the trouble with the lack of ethics in economic matters. His banking system was based on a model of charging little or no interest on loans in an effort to protect borrowers from usury. Despite the positive potential of this banking reform, Carcano was an anti-Semite.

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Bod-Inc: C-086; ISTC: ic00194000; GW 6129; Hain: HC *4508; C 1455; Goff: Goff C-194; BMC: BMC V 193; Proctor: Pr 4166.