Martin De Azpilcueta, Called Navarrus

Enchiridion, Sive Manuale Confessariorum Et Poenitentium...Iampridem Sermone Hispano Compositum & Nunc Latinatate Donatum

      Lugduni, apud Guliel. Rouillium, sub scuto Veneto 1575. 1150pp, decorated initials, last leaf dedication. Original limp lettered vellum. Backstrip loosening revealing incunable under spine. Some contemporary ink mss notes to blank eps. Five raised bands. Fine. * Martin de Azpilcueta was "an outstanding figure at Coimbra University in the time of D. Jo?o III" (King Manuel 50). Born at Varazoin, near Pamplona, he studied at Alcal? de Henares, Toulouse and Cahors. Around 1524 he went to Salamanca, where he lectured on canon law until 1538. At that time D. Jo?o III asked his brother-in-law, the Emperor Charles V, to allow Azpilcueta to teach at Coimbra. For 17 years Azpilcueta taught, wrote and published there; then he returned to Spain, and later went on to Rome, where he lived and continued to publish until his death in 1586, at age 94. He was held in high esteem by Philip II of Spain, Cardinal San Carlo Borromeo, and Popes Pius V, Gregory XIII and Sixtus V. (See Argita y Lasa, @El Doctor Navarro D. Martin de Azpilcueta y sus obras. ) An important & excessively rare early work.