TURRECREMATA JOHANNES DE.

Expositio in Psalterium.

      Venezia, Lazaro de Soardi, 1502. In 8° (152x100). Bella silografia al frontespizio. Legatura in piena pelle coeva con fregi a secco, tagli goffrati. Buon esemplare "Juan De Torquemada (1388-1468), or rather Johannes De Turrecremata, Spanish ecclesiastic, was born at Valladolid, in 1388, and was educated in that city. At an early age he joined the Dominican order, and soon distinguished himself for learning and devotion. In 1415 he accompanied the general of his order to the Council of Constance, whence he proceeded to Paris for study, and took his doctor"s degree in 1423. After teaching for some time in Paris he became prior of the Dominican house first in Valladolid and then in Toledo. In 1431 Pope Eugenius IV. called him to Rome and made him "magister sancti palatii." At the Council of Basel he was one of the ablest supporters of the view of the Roman curia, and he was rewarded with a cardinal"s hat in 1439. He died at Rome on the 26th of September 1468." [EB 11th) Torequemada's commentary on the Psalter was composed in Rome in 1463. Peter Schoeffer is one of the great names in the history of printing. He was, with Johannes Furst ,a partner in the first books of Johannes Gutenberg. He was initially a calligrapher who apprenticed to Gutenberg and designed type for him. After Gutenberg"s bankrupcy he formed a partnership with Fust and eventually married his daughter. He has been called the first truly successful .