[Rarebooks] FS: Sigonio's 1586 biographies of the clergy of Bologna.

[Kenneth Karmiole]

Sigonio, Carlo. DE EPISCOPIS BONONIENSIBUS LIBRI QUINQUE. Bologna: Per Alexandrum Benatium. 1586. First edition. 4to. (4),(2 blank leaves),260,(2 blank leaves),(64)pp. Index. With a beautiful title page illustrated with a large woodcut depicting St. Petronius, the patron saint of Bologna, and 2 smaller woodcuts of the arms of the city and of a bishop. Cont. limp vellum, some light soiling, hand lettered paper spine label (chipped), some old library lettering at foot of spine. Old private library bookplate on front pastedown.    $600.00 (trade discount allowed)
This book by the historian Sigonio (1524-1584) gives short biographies of the bishops and archbishops of Bologna from St. Zama (270) to Gabriele Paleozzi (1566). Not in Adams. BL Italian STC p. 627.

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