[Rarebooks] FS: Scarce ed. of Landino's "Disputationes Camaldulenses" (Strassburg: 1508)

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Landino, Christoforo. ...LIBRI QUATUOR: Primus de Vita Activa & De Summo 
Bono. Tertius & Quartus in Publii Vergilii Maronis Allegorias... (Strassburg: 
Mathias Schurer. 1508). Folio. (138)pp., final leaf, a blank, lacking. 20th 
century tan boards, calf spine label (a bit rubbed). Title a bit soiled, and 
text with occasional light soiling. Some contemporary marginal annotations. 
    $2,000.00 (trade discount allowed)
Scarce edition of the "Disputationes Camaldulenses" by the notable Italian 
humanist author Landino (d. 1498). The first part of this text is a 
philosophical dialog on the relative merits of the active and contemplative life. 
The later section is the author's allegorical commentary of Virgil's AENEID. 
Adams L125.

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