(Religion) — Longueil, Christophe de.- Orationes duae pro defensione sua in crimen lesae maiestatis, longe exactiori quàm ante iudicio perscriptae, ac nunc primum ex ipsius authoris sententia in lucem editae. Oratio una ad Luterianos. Eiusdem...
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epistolarum libri quatuor. Epistolarum Bembi et Sadoleti liber unus. Longolij vita perdocte quidem atq[ue] eleganter ab ispius amicissimo quodam exarata. (Florentiae, per haeredes Philippi Juntae, 1524. Mense decembris). In-8° : 163-[1 bl.] lvs (very slightly browned, contemporary handwritten provenance on title-page, large and light marginal dampstains in the beginning, stains, handwritten notes in some margins, errors in foliotation, rare perforations, lvs misbound in quire "t"). Contemporary binding : parchment, decorated boards with blind fillets and angular fleurons, ribbed spine, red sprinkled edges (small lacks of parchment, very slightly trimmed). First posthumous edition of this early postincunabulum collecting discours and letters of de Longueil (1490-1522), given by the printer and publisher Bernardo Giunta (1487- 1551). Contains : "Per duellionis rei, prioris [- posterioris] diei defensio" : written to defend himself in the occasion of the trial of 16 June 1519 for the "Oratio de laudibus divi Ludovici atque Francorum" of 1510, oration in favour of Saint Louis in which he celebrated the genius of France and expressed anti-Italians feelings,- "Ad Luterianos quosd'am iam damnatos oratio" : written in 1520 at the request of Leo X,- several letters among whom to the cardinals and writers Pietro Bembo (1470-1547), Jacobo Sadoleto (1477-1547) and Guillaume Budé (1467-1540). The Dutch humanist de Longueil (1490-1522), friend of Erasmus and Budé, was the protégé of the last archbishop of Cantorbéry and counselor of Mary Tudor, Reginald Pole (1500-1558), met in Padua. The life of de Longueil in this work was probably written by Pole. Printer's mark on title-page. # Machiels L-426; # Adams L-1443; # Soltész, L-370; # Contemporaries of Erasmus II- 342/345; # USTC 838568. fl Édition originale posthume des discours et lettres de l'humaniste flamand donnés par B. Giunta. Avec une biographie de de Longueil probalement par le conseiller de Mary Tudor, R. Pole. Plein parchemin de l'ép. (claires mouill. marg. au début, erreurs de foliotation, ff. inversés au cahier "t").
