[Rarebooks] FS: Illustrated biography of a Vallumbrosan Order leader. Florence: 1761

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Brocchi, Giuseppe Maria. VITA DEL BEATO MICHELE FLAMMINI Abate Generale di 
Vallombrosa... Seconda Edizione Accresciuta e Adorna d’ una Raccolta di Scelti 
Rami con un Bellissimo Opusculo de Vita Solitaria... Florence: Francesco 
Moucke. 1761. Lg. 4to. xvi,254,(2)pp. Illustrated with 10 plates: an engraved 
frontispiece portrait of the author, and 9 engraved views, portraits and plans (3 
are folding). There are also several text engravings and vignette initials. 
Title printed in red & black with an engraved vignette. Cont. 1/4 vellum (some 
minor worming) over marbled boards, red calf spine label.     $300.00 (trade 
discount allowed)
Vallombrosa is the mother-house (20 miles from Florence) of the Vallumbrosan 
Order, found in the 11th century. This is an extensive biography on Michael 
Flammini, the 18th century leader of the order, who had died ten years earlier 
in 1751. 

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