Giovio, Paolo (1483-1552)

LE VITE DI LEON DECIMO ET D'ADRIANO VI SOMMI PONTEFICI, ET DEL CARDINAL POMPEO COLONNA, SCRITTE PER MONS. PAOLO GIOUIO VESCOUO DI NOCERA & TRADOTTE DA M. LODOUICO DOMENICHI. In Fiorenza, appresso Lorenzo Torrentino, 1551.

      "Description : [in 8vo] – pp. 459, (b), (2b).TORRENTINE EDITION. Nice small 8vo edition of the Biographies of the Popes Leo X , Adrianus VI and of the cardinal Pompeo Colonna penned by Paolo Giovio (1483-1552) historian and bishop pf Nocera realized in Florence in the press of Laurentius Torrentinus ( real name Laurens van den Bleeck) , typographer from Gemert in Brabant ( Netherlands) , active in Firenze and Pescia, son of Lennart. Turrentinus was also a bookseller in Bologna together with Arnoldo Arlenio, operating under the business name "" libreria del Thodesco"". Torentinus (1499 -1563) was invited in Florence by the Duke Cosimo de' Medici in the year 1546, and the following year in 1547 opened his press in Garbo close to the Church of S. Romolo. Between 1554 and 1555 worked in Pescia. In 1562 was summoned in Mondovì to manage and direct the typography founded there by will of the Duke Emannuel Filiberto. Died in Florence in 1563; the press was later on managed by his sons Leonardo, Romolo and Bonaventura. The first Edition of Giovio’s Lives was printed 3 years before (1548) in folio format . Very nice copy in very good antiquarian condition, late XVIII-XIX century italian binding in half leather with gilt lettering and decoration on spine and marbled paper boards.Nice copy in very Good Antiquarian ConditionsCfr.: EDIT 16 Censimento delle Edizioni Italiane del XVI Secolo, ICCU Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico , ref. CNCE 21181; J.C. BRUNET, Manuel du Libraire et de l’amateur de Livres. IV ed. , Paris, Chez Silvestre "