Against the Donning of the Gown; Enigma by Galilei, Galileo; Bignami, Giovanni F - 2000
by Galilei, Galileo; Bignami, Giovanni F
Against the Donning of the Gown; Enigma
by Galilei, Galileo; Bignami, Giovanni F
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London: Moon Books. Fine/Fine. 2000. First Thus, First Printing. Full-Leather. 7" x 5.5" Calf-bound limited edition of 2000 printed on hand-made paper and illustrated by original drawings by Donata Almici. Superbly produced. The poem was originally penned by Galileo in 1509 in Pisa, where, as a young lecturer he railed against a system in which he was obliged to wear his academic gown at all times. He takes argues (toungue-in cheek) that we should do as beasts do and go naked, and examines the consequences of doing this. The poem has been translated into English iambic tercets by Giovanni Bignami and the original Italian text is presented on facing pages. The book ends with another Galilean poem "Enigma" "Galileo's unsolved riddle" . This book is in fine condition with the original glassine wrapper and corrugated box that doubles as a slipcase. A scarce publication that seldom comes to market. .
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ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. Excluding Drama. The completeion of The Clark Lectures,Trinity College,Cambridge 1944.Volume three in the Oxford History of English Literature series.Edited by F.P.Wilson and Bonamy Dobree
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Divinity of Desire
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Catalogus Romanorum Imperatorum. Additi sunt et Germanici Imperatores descripti versibus
by SABINUS, Georg
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Georg Sabinus was a 16th-century German poet and historian who published an important catalogue of the emperors of Rome. Curiously, Sabinus supplemented the lists of Roman rulers with lists of German leaders. Each entry features a short description of the figure including some of which are written in poetic verse. It includes all the known Roman and German rulers such as Charlemagne, Otto the Great, Charles V, Constantine, Julius Caesar, Nero, and Augustus Caesar.
This fascinating Latin edition was published in Wittemberg, Germany in 1553 by Kreutzer
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SABINUS, Georg
Catalogus Romanorum Imperatorum. Additi sunt et Germanici Imperatores descripti versibus
Wittemberg : [Veit Kreutzer], 1553.
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Dialogus D. Ioannis Chrysostomi de Episcopatu & Sacerdotio
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A rare 16th-century printing of works of John Chrysostom. Chrysostom was one of the most important Early Christian Church authors and preachers and is most remembered for his sermons and homilies. He preached on many different subjects, but his most frequented topic was helping the needy. Chrysostom calls for followers of Jesus to set aside their material desires to help the poor, often in a way that shamed the rich and guilted them in to giving.
"Do you pay such honor to your excrements as to receive them into a silver chamber-pot when another man made in the image of God is perishing in the cold?" (Chrysostom in Liebeschuetz)
One of his most important treatises was 'On the Priesthood' in which he describes his experiences becoming a priest and living as a priest. Interestingly, this work was popular during his lifetime as he made references to it in his other works.
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Amadis de Gaule.: Le tiers livre de Amadis de Gaule, contenant les guerres & dif.
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ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. Excluding Drama. The completeion of The Clark Lectures,Trinity College,Cambridge 1944.Volume three in the Oxford History of English Literature series.Edited by F.P.Wilson and Bonamy Dobree
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HONEST ABE A Study in Integrity
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The Shepheardes Calender. Latin and English. Calendarium Pastorale, Sive Aegolgae Duodecim, Totidem Anni Mesibus accommo...
by Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599
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The Orlando Innamorato. Translated into Prose from the Italian of Francesco Berni
by Boiardo, Matteo Maria, 1440 or 41-1494 / Berni, Francesco, 1497 or 8-1535 / Rose, William Stewart, 1775-1843, translator
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Opere di Niccolò Machiavelli cittadino e segretario Fiorentino. Volume Ottavo. Mandragola; Clizia...
by Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527. Baldelli Boni, Giovanni Battista, editor
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Aminta. Favola Boschereccia. Si Aggiungono le Poesie Scelte
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The Shepheardes Calender. Latin and English. Calendarium Pastorale, Sive Aegolgae Duodecim, Totidem Anni Mesibus accommo...
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Opere di Niccolò Machiavelli cittadino e segretario Fiorentino. Volume Ottavo. Mandragola; Clizia...
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Révolutions De Paris, Dédiées A La Nation et au District des Petits-Augustins¦ No. 105
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The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: A Facsimile of the William Morris Kelmscott Chaucer
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HONEST ABE A Study in Integrity
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The Turkish Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Imperial Ambassador at Contantinople 1554-1562.
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A Middle English Translation of Macer Floridus de Viribus Herbarum
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Chronicon Preciosum: Or, an Account of English Gold and Silver Money; The Price of Corn and other Commodities; and of Stipends, Salaries, Wages, Jointures, Portions, Day-Labour, etc, in England, for Six Hundred Years last past: To which is added, An Historical Account of Coins, Illustrated
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