La Première Renaissance Rome au temps de Jules II et de Léon X. La Cour Pontificale Les artistes et les gens de lettres La ville et le peuple Le sac de Rome en 1527

Emmanuel Rodocanachi

Published by Librairie Hachette, Paris, 1912

About this Item

A lovely scarce first edition copy of this fascinating history of Renaissance Rome in the period from the papacy of Julius II to that of Leo X by Emmanuel Rodocanachi. Emmanuel Rodocanachi was a French historian and biographer, one of the greatest specialists in the history of the city of Rome and of the papal government. His most notable works included 'Les corporations ouvrières de Rome' and his 'Histoire de Rome depuis 1342', and he was notably rewarded the French Legion of Honour. Containing a fascinating history of the Popes and the papal court, art, architecture, patronage, theater, the population, feasts, ceremonies, popular entertainments, customs and traditions, superstitions, and so forth. Collated, complete with copious illustrations throughout of notable Renaissance figures, art and photographic plates of notable buildings and scenes in the city. This text is written in French throughout. In a quarter crushed morocco binding with marbled paper over boards. Externally slightly bumped and rubbed to extremities. Small sections of rubbing to joints. Small section to rubbing of front board. Slight rubbing to leather of tail of spines and the raised bands. Tipped in library plate to front pastedown. Library stamp to front pastedown. Evidence of removal of tipped in plate to front free-endpaper. Internally firmly bound. Pages very bright and clean with scattered spotting to fore edge of the occasional page. Scattered spotting to first and last few pages. Tidemark to lower extremity of illustrated title page. Library stamp to title page. Heavy creasing to page 333/4. Very Good Indeed.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: La Première Renaissance Rome au temps de Jules II et de Léon X. La Cour Pontificale Les artistes et les gens de lettres La ville et le peuple Le sac de Rome en 1527
• Publisher: Librairie Hachette, Paris
• Publication Date: 1912
• Binding: Leather
• Illustrator: Unnamed
• Edition: First edition.
• Condition: Very Good Indeed
• Book Type: book
• Seller catalogs:
  • European History