Published by Isabetta di Bernardo Basa 1600, Venetia [Venice], 1600
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Add to basketHalf Vellum. Condition: Very Good. ITALIAN LANGUAGE. [lxxx], 343, [1], [14], 196 pp. Contemporary half vellum binding with hand-written title to spine. Light wear to front joint at tail of spine and patches of light wear to boards. Previous owner's name in ink to title and a couple of annotations in margins, otherwise quite clean. The Cronologia, with its own title page, is missing pages 181-188 as appears common. Numerous woodcut portraits of the popes. Sixtus VI made Bartolomeo (Battista) Platina of Cremona, Vatican Librarian in 1475 as a result of the original Lives of the Popes, which he finished that year and which was published in 1479. Published by the female Venetian publisher Isabetta di Bernardo Basa, who came from an influential publishing family. 24.5cms tall, 17.5cms wide. Small 4to.