Piccolomini (Aeneas Sylvius), Pope Pius II. Epistolae

Piccolomini (Aeneas Sylvius), Pope Pius II. Epistolae familiares. De Duobus amantibus Euryalo et Lucretia. Descriptio urbis Viennensis, edited by Nicolaus de Wyle, collation: a6 b-z aa-hh8 (a2 signed a, etc.), 245 ff. (of 246, lacking initial blank), 52 lines, Gothic type, initial spaces, contemporary ink notes to b1r and occasional marginalia, a[2] lower blank corner torn and repaired, a2 [i.e 3] with marginal repair, a3 [i.e 4], with section of lower blank corner torn away, water-stained, some spotting and other lesser staining, 19th century half calf, spine in compartments and with white and green leather labels, corners worn, rubbed, 4to (226 x 162mm.), Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 17 July, 1486.

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⁂ Second Koberger edition of a collection of letters by the humanist Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini, who became Pope Pius II in 1458. Includes the erotic epistolary novel De duobus amantibus, written in 1444.

Provenance: 'Anton: d'?attrinto'; 'MBarth...' (early ink signatures to first text f.).

Literature: BMC II 430; Goff P719; HC 154*; Bod-inc P-320; BSB-Ink P-522; GW M33695; ISTC ip00719000.