De fide et uita Christi
By: Antonii Cornazani Placentini vatis liber incipit ..
Series: Incunabula -- VE 106
Publisher: Printer of Cornazzano
Published: 1472
Place of publication: Venice
Language: ita; lat
Number of pages: 72
Subjects: Poetry; Italian Christian poetry; History
Other titles: De fide et vita Christi.; Carmen heroicum pro laudibus Venetiarum.
Work titles: Vita di Cristo
Notes: Signatures: [a-i⁸] ([a]1-2 and [i]8 blank)

Title from caption on [b]1 recto; at head: Ad serenissimum venetorum dominium eiusque civitatis principem clarriss.

Place of publication and printer's name from filmer's introductory frame on fiche 1; date from colophon.

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)

"Eiusdem auctoris pro eiusdem urbis laudibus Minerva heroico carmine", a panegyric in Latin hexameters on Venice as the chief bulwark against the Turks: [i]5-[i]8.

"Tavola de la sequente opera alla illustriss[imo] s. di Venetia per Antonio Cornazano intitulata": [a]3-8.

Goff, C-912.

ISTC (CD-ROM), ic0091200.

Hain-Reichling, 5729.

Hain, 5727.

GW, 7550.

BM 15th cent., 7:1147.

Pellechet, 3977.

Proctor, 7386.

British Library [C.4.h.17 = IA.25041] London England enk.