Platina, Bartholomaeus Sacchi De
Vitae Pontificum. [Liber De Vita Christi: Ac Pontificum Omniu(M)...
Anton Koberger, 1481, August 11. Folio. 293 x 203mm. [a10, b-6, s8, t6, v8. ] [a1/a2? mounted]. 128ff. Late 19th c. 1/2 pebble-grain calf over marbled boards, some rubbing; marbled endpapers; the first leaf [a1r Hieronymus Sqarzaficus letter to Palatina. a2r Platina's Prohemium to Sixtus IV. as described in Bod-Inc or are these two separate leaves? --From another copy? Another edition? ] have been cut and are pasted to the verso of the endpaper without text loss ( their versos are blank), the first leaf of text is pasted to the fly-leaf at it's inner margin; a few occ. pin worm holes in blank margins, repaired tear in last leaf. Rubricated throughout with a 5 line red initial 'M' on the first leaf, 14-lie initial 'N; on first text leaf with white decoration. "Bartolomeo Platina, originally named Sacchi, was born at Piadena (Platina in Latin), near Mantua, in 1421; he died at Rome, 1481. In 1457, he went to Florence, and studied under the Greek scholar Argyropulos. In 1462 he proceeded to Rome, probably in the suite of Cardinal Francesco Gonzaga. After Pius II had reorganized the College of Abbreviators (1463), and increased the number to seventy, Platina, in May 1464, was elected a member. When Paul II abolished the ordinances of Pius, Platina with the other new members was deprived of his office. Angered by this, he wrote a pamphlet insolently demanding from the pope the recall of his restrictions. When called upon to justify himself he answered with insolence and was imprisoned in the Castle of Sant' Angelo, being released after four months on condition that he remain at Rome. In February 1468, with about twenty other humanists, he was again imprisoned on suspicion of heresy and of conspiring against the life of the pope...After his release on July 7, 1469, he expected to be again in the employ of Paul II, who, however, declined his services. Platina threatened vengeance and executed his threat, when at the suggestion of Sixtus IV he wrote his Vitę Pontificum Platinę historici liber de vita...<!-
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