De fato libri novem
By SERINA, Giulio
SERINA, Giulio. De fato libri novem. Venice, ex officina Iordani Zileti, 1563. £1950 FIRST EDITION. Folio, ff. (x) 168 (xii), *4 **6 A-Z4 2A-2Y4. Roman letter, some Italic, a little Greek. Large vignette on t-p with a comet surrounded by seven small stars enclosed within an elaborate figurative framing. Two different faded library stamps on t-p, one of them repeated on front endpaper. Small wormholes and tracking throughout lower gutter, slightly affecting the text, occasionally. Rebacked, in contemporary gilt ruled calf binding with fleurons and cardinals coat of arms at centre of covers. Occasional light spotting and age yellowing to margins. A nice copy in good condition. Gauffered edges, a.e.g. This is the first and only edition of Serina s De fato (Concerning fate), which begins with a dedication letter to Cardinal Ercole Gonzaga, primary papal legate at the Council of Trent. It follows a Latin poem and the Perioche, that is, abstracts of the selected extracts included in the nine books of Serina s work, which was edited by Girolamo Maggi. Before the core of the book begins, there are the tables of contents. Born in Brescia, Serina was a philosopher and theologian, and a cleric of the Order of Saint Gerome of Fiesole. He became the General of his Congregation three times. For forty years he read metaphysics, theology and philosophy at the University of Bologna, where he died in 1593. A polymath, Maggi was born in Tuscany in Anghiari 1523 and miserably died of strangulation by the hand of the Turks in Constantinople in 1572 because of the failed capitulation of Famagosta in Cyprus under the Ottoman onslaught. The book discusses the nature of fate through the consideration of those events that are determined by casualty or necessity , but also contingency , in which casual and necessary causes work together.
Published by: ex officina Iordani Zileti, 1563
Vendor: Symonds Rare Books Ltd
By SERINA, Giulio
SERINA, Giulio. De fato libri novem. Venice, ex officina Iordani Zileti, 1563. £1950 FIRST EDITION. Folio, ff. (x) 168 (xii), *4 **6 A-Z4 2A-2Y4. Roman letter, some Italic, a little Greek. Large vignette on t-p with a comet surrounded by seven small stars enclosed within an elaborate figurative framing. Two different faded library stamps on t-p, one of them repeated on front endpaper. Small wormholes and tracking throughout lower gutter, slightly affecting the text, occasionally. Rebacked, in contemporary gilt ruled calf binding with fleurons and cardinals coat of arms at centre of covers. Occasional light spotting and age yellowing to margins. A nice copy in good condition. Gauffered edges, a.e.g. This is the first and only edition of Serina s De fato (Concerning fate), which begins with a dedication letter to Cardinal Ercole Gonzaga, primary papal legate at the Council of Trent. It follows a Latin poem and the Perioche, that is, abstracts of the selected extracts included in the nine books of Serina s work, which was edited by Girolamo Maggi. Before the core of the book begins, there are the tables of contents. Born in Brescia, Serina was a philosopher and theologian, and a cleric of the Order of Saint Gerome of Fiesole. He became the General of his Congregation three times. For forty years he read metaphysics, theology and philosophy at the University of Bologna, where he died in 1593. A polymath, Maggi was born in Tuscany in Anghiari 1523 and miserably died of strangulation by the hand of the Turks in Constantinople in 1572 because of the failed capitulation of Famagosta in Cyprus under the Ottoman onslaught. The book discusses the nature of fate through the consideration of those events that are determined by casualty or necessity , but also contingency , in which casual and necessary causes work together.
Published by: ex officina Iordani Zileti, 1563
Vendor: Symonds Rare Books Ltd
