[Rarebooks] FS: Granada's "Meditationi Molto Devote." w/28 woodcuts. Venice: 1577 (1st Ital. trans.)

[Kenneth Karmiole]

Granada, Luis de (or, Luis, de Granada). MEDITATIONI MOLTO DEVOTE, Sopra Alcuni Passi, et Misteri della Vita del Nostro Salvatore... Tradotte di Spagnuolo in Italiano dal R. M. Pietro Buonfanti da Bibbiena... Venice: Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari. 1577. 4to. (20),267,(1)pp. Large woodcut device on title and verso of final leaf. Text illustrated with 28 text woodcuts, most within a decorative woodcut border. Cont. vellum, part of the bottom edge and one corner rat gnawed, exposing the boards under the vellum; some light text soiling. Still a decent copy.                   $750.00 (trade discount allowed)
The first Italian translation, second issue (with the 1577 date rather than 1576) of contemporary theologian Luis de Granada (1504-1588). See Bonghi. GIOLITO DE'FERRARI II, pp. 357-358.

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