Scorta del peccatore, ove si tratta lungamente della beltà & de' Beni inestimabili della Virtù; & com'ella s'ottenghi. Unito a: Meditazioni molto devote, sopra alcuni passi, et Misteri della Vita del Nostro Salvatore, & particolarmente della sua Santa Natività, per fino alla sua gloriosa Ascensione. Unito a: Aggiontioni al memoriale della vita Christiana

Features

Author:  Luigi di Granata

Publisher:  Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari

Place of printing:  Venice

Year of publication:  1577;1577;1578

Product Condition:
Volume in fair condition. Binding in half leather and marbled plates, with gilt decorations and title and decorations on the spine: stripping on the spine, on the sleeves and on the hinges, with cuts on the upper portion of the two hinges; slight peeling on the edges and corners of the plates. Cuts sprayed with traces of dust. Paper ex-libris on front pastedown. Ancient ownership note in pen on the first title page. Cards generally well preserved, lightly browned with rare foxing. We point out: in the first work of the volume a damp spot on the lower margin from the title page to F6, very intense and brown at the first cc and gradually paler; in the third work of the volume, pale dampness at the lower and outer margin from N3 to the end of the volume; some tiny and sporadic woodworm holes in the upper margin of a few cc's of the first work of the volume

Pages:  (26),431;(20),267;(30),258

Format:  In eighth

Dimensions (cm):
Height:  21
Width:  15

Description

Three works bound in a single volume by the Dominican Luis de Grenada, Spanish thinker and preacher (Granada 1504 - Lisbon 1588) published by Gabriele Giolito de' Ferrari, an example of typographic art with its light and elegant characters and the engravings that accompany the text with cartoons, headers and drop caps. On the title pages, the famous typographical brand with the phoenix rising from the flames and the motto "Semper eadem". The publication of these devotional texts testifies to the change in Giolito's editorial policy in the post-Tridentine climate of the counter-reformation: having abandoned the contemporary works of literature in the vernacular, the typography devoted itself essentially to devotional works, above all in the vernacular, and to the translation of the Greek and Latin classics. Our three works represent the eighth, ninth and tenth volume of a sort of series of ascetic and preaching writings called "Spiritual Garland" intended for the general public of devotees, inaugurated in 1568 with a book by Luis de Granada.

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