Descrizione

With large historiated woodcut initial at the beginning. 90 pp., 1 blank leaf. Sm.-4to (193 x 138 mm). 17th-century polished calf, gilt panelled spine, red edges (blind library stamps on first and last leaves, back rep.). From the collection of Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland (lot 10608 in his sale, 1882). Florence, (Lorenzo Torrentino), 1551. First edition. Probably originally published, and later reprinted (Palau: Se reimprimio en coleccion en la obras.) as part of the larger work by the Spanish born Jesuit Torres (1509-1584) "De summi pontificis supra concilia auctoritate libri tres" (1551) against Ambrosius Catharinus, Archbishop of Conza (1484-1553). Torres was professor at the Roman College, and wrote more than seventy books, principally polemical, mainly against Protestants. "Can also exist independently": State Library Berlin (transl.). - Palau 33697 (knows only the BN copy); FRBNF31481832; CNCE 48142 (no copy in Florence); cf. Adams 1192; not in EDIT 16; not in STC (Italian), but cf. p. 687.