Vaso di verità
Subtitle: nel quale si contengono dodeci resolutioni uere a dodeci importanti dubbi, fatti intorno all'origine, nascita, uita, opere, e morte dell'Antichristo
By: del M.R.P.M. Alessio Porri Carmelita[n]o, dottore, predicatore, padre grauissimo e nell' Academia delli Sig[no]ri Innominati detto l'Academico Stabile
Contributors: Dusinelli, Pietro, printer; Porro, Girolamo, 1520-1604, engraver, printer
Publisher: Appresso Pietro Dusinelli e Girolamo Porri
Published: 1597
Place of publication: In Venetia
Language: ita
Number of pages: 136
Subjects: Italian Emblem books; Antichrist; Early works to 1800
Description: Treatise on the Antichrist by the Carmelite Alessio Porri, native of Mantua and member of the Accademia degli Innominati.Porri presents, in dialogue form, a series of 12 responses to 12 common questions about the Antichrist, concerning such topics as his name, physical nature, and time of appearance.
Notes: Engraved title page leaf and twelve engraved plates are included in pagination and signatures.

Signatures: [a]⁴ b-c⁴ A-O⁴.

Final page blank.

Engraved illustrated title page (included in pagination); title within an architectural frame, including coats of arms of dedicatee Cardinal Lorenzo Priuli above, and another coat of arms below.

Twelve engraved allegorical illustrations, with Latin captions and Italian text, attributed to Girolamo Porro.

Woodcut head- and tail-pieces; decorative initials; letterpress text within type ornament borders.

Text in roman type, with some highlights in italic type; printed on strong paper.

Preliminaries include dedicatory prefaces addressed to Cardinal Lorenzo Priuli (1538-1600), signed by Girolamo Porro, and Francesco Trivisani, signed by Alessio Porri, as well as sonnets and epigrams.

BM STC Italian, 1465-1600, p. 535

Adams P-1921

Brunet IV:824

EDIT 16 CNCE 35320

Binding: paper boards; ink title on spine; shelf label at bottom of spine; ink signature and three faded ownership stamps on title page.