[Rarebooks] FS: Scarce legal text on the Catholic Church. Venice: 1541

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(LAW) Mantova Benavides, Marco. DIALOGUS DE CONCILIO. (Venice: No printer, but Aurelio Pinzi. 1541). First edition. 4to. ff.(62). Title within a fine woodcut border. Modern tan polished calf, blind stamped. Small repair to blank lower outer corner of title page, otherwise a very nice copy.	$1,000.00 (trade discount allowed)
A scarce text by a Juriscouncil from Padova (d. 1582) who comments on the Councils and Synods of the Catholic Church, in the period prior to the Council of Trent. The text is set up as a dialog between the author and Roberto Magio, another legal scholar and representative of the Catholic Church. Not in Adams, who lists the author under "Benavides." BL Italian STC p. 410.


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