Gammaro, Pietro Andrea

Tractatus de Officio, Atque Auctoritate Legati de Latere

      Gammaro (Gambaro, Gambari), Pietro Andrea [1480- - 1528]. Ferentillo (Ferentilli), Agostino [16th. c.], Editor. Tractatus de Officio, Atque Auctoritate Legati de Latere, In Quo, Praeter Alia Complura, Quae ad Ipsius Legationibus Officii Munus Pertinent; Casus Omnes Pontifici Maximo Reservati, Beneficiorum Permutationes, Pensiones, Coadjutoriae, Atque Dispensationes, Italuculenter, & Docte Pertractantur, Ut Nusquam ab Alio, Vel Melius Suerint Hactenus Expositae, Vel Clarius Enodatae. Venice: Apud Vincentium Valgrisium, 1571. [xcvi], 326 pp. Final leaf, a blank, lacking. Main text in parallel columns. Folio (11-1/2" x 8-1/2"). Contemporary vellum, rebacked in period style retaining original lettering piece, colored edges, ties lacking, endpapers renewed, hinges reinforced. A few stains and some edgewear to boards, armorial bookplate to front pastedown. Attractive large printer device to title page, woodcut decorated initials. Crack in text block between front endleaf and title page, which has a repair and early owner signature to bottom edge. Toning, faint dampstaining and marginal worming to a few leaves, text otherwise fresh. * First edition. Gammaro, a jurist and legal writer, was Vicar General to Pope Clement VII. Tractatus de Officio is a treatise about the law concerning papal legates, but it contains a great deal of general information relevant to other kinds of ambassadors. This seems to have been a well-regarded work. It had a second edition in 1572 and was included in the important multi-volume anthology Tractatus Universi Juris (1684-86). OCLC locates 1 copy of this edition in North America (at Harvard Law School), 3 copies of the second edition (At Harvard Law School, the Library of Congress and UC-Berkeley Law School). Another first edition located at GWU Law School. Censimento Nazionale delle Edizioni Italiane del XVI Secolo (EDIT16) CNCE 20342. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]