Gambiglioni, Angelo [and Others]

De Maleficiis. Angeli Aretini de Inquirendis Animadvertendis Que Criminibus opus Nedum utile sed Necessarium Omnibus, Maxime iis, Qui as Provincias Regendas Constituti Sunt.

      cent.], Alberto del Gandini (c.1245- - Gambiglioni, Angelo (Aretino, Angelo) [15th. c.1310], Bonifacio Vitalini [d.ca. 1390], Agostino Bonfranceschi [d.1479], Jeronimo Cucalon [16th. cent.] and Thomas Diplovatatius [1468-1541]. Cui Tractatus Alberto de Gandino. Necnon Bonifacii de Vitellinus, Una cum Apostillis Auugustini de Arimino, & Hieronymi Chuchalon, Veluti Apendices Subiecrimus. Exactiori Diligentia quam Hactenus Impressum and Emendatum. Venice: [Apud Cominum del Tridino, 1555]. [xliv], 284, 206, [2] fols. Main text printed in double columns. Octavo (4-1/2" x 7"). Later quarter calf over marbled boards, gilt fillets and title to spine, speckled edges, endpapers renewed. Light rubbing to extremities with some wear to corners. Woodcut printer's devices to title page and recto of final leaf, large vignette of a law lecture by Gambiglioni at head of Proem (fol. 1), attractive large decorated initials. Early owner signature to title page, underlining to a few leaves. Minor stains to a few leaves, interior otherwise fresh. A handsome volume * Later issue of a work first published in 1472. It is a collection of canon and Roman-law writings dealing with criminals by a distinguished group of (mostly Italian) jurists. A popular work, it was expanded and reissued several times during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. KVK locates 5 copies. 1 copy located in North America at the Library of Congress. This imprint not in Adams or the British Museum Catalogue. [Attributes: Hard Cover]