[Rarebooks] FS: Frizzoli's dialog between Microcosmos and Theosibia. Bologna: 1538

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Frizzoli, Melchiorre. DIALOGO DE LANIMA... Nuovame[n]te Corretto, e Ristampato per l'Opera del Revere[n]do P. F. Raphelle de Nobili... (Bologna: per Vicenzo Bonardo da Parma, & Marcantonio da Capo. 1538). 8vo. ff.226. Double column text. Illustrated with a large woodcut of the two interlocutors, a 3/4-page text woodcut diagram and a fine woodcut capital. Cont. vellum, soiled, hand lettered spine, ties lacking.	$1,250.00 (trade discount allowed)
Second edition, printed only one year after the first. The editor Raphelle de Nobili assures the reader in his preface that they will have everlasting life if they read, understand and act on the precepts of this theological work (a dialog between Microcosmos and Theosibia). Frizzoli (d. 1520) was a native of Parma and philosopher of the Ordine Minore. BL Italian STC p. 432. OCLC records only a few copies, only 1 copy in the U. S., at the University of Chicago.


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