Oratio ad Innocentium VIII.

SCALA, Bartholomaeus

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[Rome, S. Plannck, 1488-1490]

4to: [4] ff., 34 ll. (minor (marg.) staining).

Mod. cloth covered boards, blind-titled flat spine (sl. wrinkled).

Good wide-margined copy of the oration to Innocent VIII by the humanist writer and Florentine Chancellor B. Scala (1430-1497), protégé of Cosimo and Piero de' Medici. The speech was delivered on 15 December 1484, winning Scala a knighthood from the newly elected pope, and was publ. in at least 6 editions 1484-1490 (4 Rome, 1 Florence, 1 Venice). Printed in gothic type. Ref. ISTC is00303000. - GW M40756. - Goff S303. - BMC IV:95. - CIBN S-159. - Not in Polain, BSB-Ink. Prov. "bonis nocet qui parcit malis" (marg. note). - [Georges Petit].