Chiari, Isidoro

De modo divitiis adhibendo… [bound with:] Ad eos, qui a communi eccesiaesententiaE discessere. Adhortatio ad concordiam

      Milan: Calvum, 1540 Two epistles by Isidoro Chiari, Bishop of Foligno, (1495 1555). Bound in one volume, the epistles were printed by Francesco Minizio Calvo, one of the more prominent early imitators of Ludovico degli Arrighi’s italic letter. Calvo used Aldine letter when he first set up his printing shop in Rome in 1523 and eventually served as printer to the Camera Apostolica, c. 1527 -1534. Relocating to Milan, by 1540 he produced several works in the style of Arrighi’s beautiful italic Rome (Johnson and Morison, Fleuron, Vol III, p. 37). The De Mondo is one of these printed in his Arrighi style italic and with a woodcut title border depicting the standing figures of Minerva and Mars, and the figure of Roma within a wreath. This border he had first printed while in Rome in 1523 (hence the figure of Roma, see Mortimer, Italian Sixteenth Century Books, p. 171). It may be the case that they were in fact issued together as both the British Library Copy and the Newberry copies have both these same editions bound together First Editions. 4to. A-E4; A-G4. Each title within woodcut border. Eighteenth-century Italian calf. Two small chips from rear cover, else a fine, BEAUTIFUL copy. Bookplate of George Abrams. Adams C2060 (2nd title); Mortimer 121 (1st title)