Le vite de pontefici
By: di Antonio Ciccarelli ... ; con l'effigie di Giovanbattista de Cavallieri
Contributors: Cavalieri, Giovanni Battista, approximately 1525-1601
Publisher: Ex typographia Dominici Basae
Published: 1588
Place of publication: Romae
Language: lat
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Popes; Early works to 1800; Biography; Pictorial works
Other titles: Vite depontefici di Antonio Ciccarelli; Vite de pontefici di Antonio Ciccarelli
Notes: Engraved t.p., incorporating arms of Giovanangelo Egitto, to whom the work is dedicated. "Breve istoria della vita di Christo," preliminary leaf [5], followed by engraving of Christ giving keys to Peter. Engraved ports. of 232 popes ending with Sixtus V, each within ornamental woodcut border. The engravings include the name at foot and a shield for the pope's arms, many of which are blank.

Basa published Cavalieri's ports. in 1580 and 1585 without Ciccarelli's text under the title: Pontificum romanorum effigies. The ports. derive in part from Onofrio Panvinio's XXVII pontificum maximorum elogia et imagines (Rome, 1568). See Mortimer.

Leaves Hh2 and Hh4 omitted in foliation.

Includes index and errata, last 2 leaves.

Mortimer, R.  Italian 16th-cent., 117