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The Boke Named The governour by ELYOT, Sir Thomas [1490?-1546] - 1557

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The Boke Named The governour by ELYOT, Sir Thomas [1490?-1546] - 1557

The Boke Named The governour

by ELYOT, Sir Thomas [1490?-1546]

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London: [T.Marsh], 1557., 1557. small 8vo. ff. [8], 216. title within woodcut architectural border. woodcut initials. black letter. modern half calf (occasional spotting, dampstain to lower outer corner of some leaves, title lightly soiled & with early ownership entry inked out). Sixth Edition (first: 1531). The author was clerk of the Privy Council and was twice sent as ambassador to the Emperor Charles V by Henry VIII, to whom the present work is dedicated. "His most famous book…was The Boke named the Governour, which went through edition after edition all through the sixteenth century. It achieved this fame for many reasons. It is the first work in recognizably modern English prose, to which Elyot added many new words. It provided influential advocacy for the study of the classics, from which he quotes extensively. the principal cause of its popularity was the current vogue for its subject – it is a treatise on moral philosophy, laying down the lines on which the education of those destined to govern should be directed, and inculcating the high moral principles which should rule them in the performance of their duties. There was nothing very original or revolutionary in the thoughts expressed: Elyot acknowledges his debt to the Institutio Principis Christiani of Erasmus and Castiglione’s Il Cortegiano, though not that to Francesco Patrizzi, Bishop of Gaeta at the end of the fifteenth century, whose De Rego et Regis Institutione was certainly the model for The Governour. Nevertheless it remained a textbook for behaviour for generations and had a lasting effect on the writing of English." (PMM) This book is not only the earliest treatise on moral philosophy in English but the first of an imposing array which introduced into England the cultural and political ideals of the Renaissance." (Pforzheimer) STC 7640. cfPrinting and the Mind of Man 61. cfGrolier, Langland to Wither, 94. cfPforzheimer 354..
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Sir Thomas Elyot, The Boke Named the Governour. London: Thomas Marsh, 1557.
Shakespeare's source for the main plot of The Two Gentlemen of Verona. There are also echoes of The Governour in Henry IV and Troilus & Cressida. (See Ralph M. Sargent, "Sir Thomas Elyot and the Integrity of The Two Gentlemen of Verona," PMLA 65 [1950]: 1166-80.)
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LUGDUNI: APUD SEB. GRYPHIUM, 1548. In 16. Dim. 17x11 cm. Pp. 402+(14). Edizione del 1548 di questa nota opera letteraria scritta da Adriano Castellesi (ca 1485-1521) nato a Corneto (antico nome di Tarquinia) detto anche Adriano da Corneto. Castellesi fu grechista, ebraista, autore di poemetti, opere di stile, grammatiche e filosofico-teologiche. Espertissimo di affari, si arricchì enormemente destando in tal modo l'invidia di Cesare Borgia che tentò di avvelenarlo. Andato in esilio e ritornato in patria all'avvento di Leone X, dovette ritornarvi perchè accusato di aver preso parte alla congiura del Cardinale Petrucci. Da questo momento in poi non si sa più nulla di lui: sembra che sia stato assassinato a scopo di furto da uno dei suoi servitori. Il volume è un'opera didattica latina che riporta termini utilizzati in sentenze classiche latine. Alla fine risulta molto interessante il poema sulla caccia organizzata dal Cardinale Ascanio Sforza nei pressi… Read More
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HOMILIAE SIVE CONCIONES PRAESTANTISSIMORUM Ecclesiae Catholicae Doctorum, Primum ab Alcuino...

HOMILIAE SIVE CONCIONES PRAESTANTISSIMORUM Ecclesiae Catholicae Doctorum, Primum ab Alcuino Levita iussu Imp. CAROLI MAGNI in hunc redactae ..

by Paulus Diaconus [Paul, the Deacon, ca. 720-799?] and others

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Koln (Cologne): apud Maternum Cholinum, 1557. Hardcover. Good. Small woodcuts (40 with a few repeats mostly of biblical scenes) + a few historiated initials. . Folio flexible vellum with stubs of ties (some wrinkles /paper spine label & large old shelfmark B) Titlepage +[25pp]=dedication, indices, to reader & errata. +[1p]blank +5-704pp As listed on a4 the book collates !6 #4 a6 b4 c-z6 +A-Z6 +Aa-Mm6 +Nn7 (lacks Nn8=the final blank) Title has stamp of the library of P.P.Capuci & early "sum ex libris Leodegarj a Meggen Can. Beron." Another "Capucinorum in Sursee" also "loci Capu. in Schyfen". Three small pin sized worm holes to TP soon diminishing to one and then none after the first few pages of text. There are two corners torn away without loss, 4 marginal tears (only one into text and that without loss). And p 634 has a marginal paper fault, again not affecting text.Page 479/480 is bound before 477/478. There are a few gatherings that are browner and a few creases. A few ink splatters to about 6… Read More
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TRES GALLICARUM RERUM scriptores nobilissimi Philippus Cominaeus de rebus gestis a Ludovico XI et...

TRES GALLICARUM RERUM scriptores nobilissimi Philippus Cominaeus de rebus gestis a Ludovico XI et Carolo VIII Francorum regibus; Frossardus in brevem historiarum memorabilium epitomen contractus; Claudius Sesellius de republ. Galliae & Regum officiis. A Ioanne Sleidano e Gallico in Latinum sermonem conversi breviq[ue] explicatione illustrati.

by Commynes, Philippe de, Jean Froissart & Claude de Seissel trans. by Johannes Sleidanus (1506-1556)

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Frankfurt: Andreas Wechel first edition, 1578. Hardcover. Very Good. Printer's mark of flying horse over cornucopia & hand from cloud holding caduceus to titlepage + same printer's mark slightly larger to verso of last leaf + floral, foliate & historiated head- & tail-piece & initials.. Folio handsome 18th century gilt ruled and sprinkled calf with 6 raised bands, the compartments & bands gilt but without a title on the spine (small chip out of head of spine/edges sl.rubbed). All edges sprinkled with red dye [8]pp prelims + 320pp + [28]pp index, publisher's imprint and large Wechel printer's mark. Some marginal damp marks to top corner but not affecting the strength and crispness of the paper nor the text. Name Fletcher to top of titlepage. A very few notes or marks to margin. *History of Louis XI & Charles VIII by de Commynes, shortened history of memorable events by Froissart and a further work, by de Seissel. Scarce volume of Medieval French history OCLC locates only 6 copies.
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ILIAS, SEU POTIUS, OMNIA EIUS QUAE EXTANT OPERA (preceded by title in Greek, ?µ???? ?????, ?...
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ILIAS, SEU POTIUS, OMNIA EIUS QUAE EXTANT OPERA (preceded by title in Greek, ?µ???? ?????, ? µ????? ?pa?ta t? s???µe?a). Studio & cura Ob. Giphanii I.C. quam emendatissime edita, cum eiusdem scholijs & indicibus novis.

by Homer

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Argentorati (Augsburg): Theodosius Rihelius, 1572 [from dedication]. Hardcover. Good. Woodcut printer's devices on title pages; woodcut initials. . Octavo (165x90mm) Vol. 1 only (of 2) original vellum with yapp edges title in old ink on spine 893+[73]pp Scolia & Index. Dedication dated XIIII. Kalend. Aprilis. A.D. 1572. Greek (text of H. Estienne) and Latin text of J. Crespin's edition, Geneva, 1560-67) on opposite pages throughout. Pages very browned thoughout but Latin & Greek text entirely legible. Referenced by Brunet III 272, Adams H764. Publisher Rihel was active 1560?-1619.
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