Title: Discorsi di Monsignore don Vincenzio Borghini. Al Serenissimo Francesco Medici Gran Duca di Toscana. Farre Seconda Reccati à Luce da' Deputati per suo Testamento. Con La Tavola Delle Cose Piu Notabili
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Second of two volumes in 4to. pp. [4], 598 [i.e. 608], 56, f. [1] (plate, folded) (irregular pagination, numerous errors, some p. not numbered). Signatures: [dagger]2, A-Z4, Aa-Vu4, [double dagger]2, Aaa-Zzz4, Aaaa-Kkkk4, A-G4 (S2, Kk2, missigned R2, K2). Vellum. Five folding plates. Brown lettering panel. Gilt spine title, shelving number stamped on spine. M</span><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15.3333px;">anuscript note on title page, partially covered with ink, printer's devices on title page and on verso of last leaf. </span></font><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Includes (with continuous paging, but with special title page and dedicatory letter not included in the pagination) the "Trattato della Chiesa e vescovi fiorentini, di don Vincenzio Borghini [...] In Fiorenza, Nella stamperia de'Giunti, MDLXXV. Con licenzia, &amp; Priuilegio." (also issued separately).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">First edition, with the first published exposure of the ‘Decretum Desiderii,’ a supposed edict of the Lombard King Desiderius, ca. 770, favouring Pope Hadrian I over Charlemagne, as an Annian forgery (see Bib# 4173306/Fr# 196 in this collection for its first printing). See R. Mortimer, Italian 16th Century Books [in the] Harvard College Library Department of Printing and Graphic Arts. 2 vols. Cambridge (MA), 1974, no. 83.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/permalink/01JHU_INST/1lu78g9/alma991039463089707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>