First Protestant Bible in Italian.- Diodati (Giovanni
First Protestant Bible in Italian.- Diodati (Giovanni, translator) La Bibbia. Cioè, I Libri Del Vecchio, E Del Nvovo Testamento, first edition, double column, title with large woodcut printer's device, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, cartouches and initials, f. before NT blank, water-stained, causing some damp-spotting in places (occasionally with a light purple hue), some foxing, lightly browned, 20th century half morocco, gilt spine in compartments, [D&M 5598; Lüthi, Bibel in der Schweiz, 58-9; Cartier, de Tournes 731], 4to, [Geneva], [Jean de Tournes], 1607. sold not subject to return.
⁂ Diodati moved from Lucca to Geneva to avoid religious persecution, and succeeded Théodore de Bèze as professor of theology.
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First Protestant Bible in Italian.- Diodati (Giovanni, translator) La Bibbia. Cioè, I Libri Del Vecchio, E Del Nvovo Testamento, first edition, double column, title with large woodcut printer's device, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, cartouches and initials, f. before NT blank, water-stained, causing some damp-spotting in places (occasionally with a light purple hue), some foxing, lightly browned, 20th century half morocco, gilt spine in compartments, [D&M 5598; Lüthi, Bibel in der Schweiz, 58-9; Cartier, de Tournes 731], 4to, [Geneva], [Jean de Tournes], 1607. sold not subject to return.
⁂ Diodati moved from Lucca to Geneva to avoid religious persecution, and succeeded Théodore de Bèze as professor of theology.