De fide et vita Christi
By: Antonii Cornazani Placentini vatis liber incipit
Contributors: Printer of Cornazzano, printer
Publisher: Eponymous press
Published: 1472
Place of publication: Venice
Language: ita
Number of pages: 72
Subjects: Biography; Early works to 1800; History; Poetry
Work titles: Vita di Cristo
Notes: Signatures: [a-i]8 ([a]1-2, [i]8 blank).

Title from caption on [b]1 recto; at head: Ad serenissimvm Venetorvm dominivm: eivsqve civitatis principem clariss.

At end: Finis. M.CCCC.LXXII.

Capital spaces.

The poem is in Italian terza rima; the first two books deal with the life of Christ, the third states and resolves a number of doubtful points of Christian doctrine in the first four chapters, while the fifth is "exhortatio al Italia in soccorso de la fede" against the Turks, and the sixth and last consists of a "pianto et caso di Negroponte" (captured by the Turks in July 1470).

"Eivsdem avctoris pro eivsdem vrbis lavdibvs Minerva heroico carmine", a panegyric in Latin hexameters on Venice as the chief bulwark against the Turks: [i]5-[i]8.

Imprint based on colophon.

Hain, 5727.

Hain-Reichling, 5729.

Proctor, 7386.

Goff, C-912.

GW, 7550.

BM 15th cent., VII, 1147(IA.25041).

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1997 ed.), ic00912000.

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 1643B.