FICINUS, Marsilius; Baptista Mantuanus; Rabanus Maurus; Desiderius Erasmus.

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De triplici vita; De religione christiana; De patientia; De institutione clericorum; Lucubratiunculae. A fine Sammelband of Renaissance humanist writings, containing five separately issued incunables and post-incunables from both north and south of the Alps handsomely bound in contemporary blind-stamped pigskin backing wooden boards, probably by the Erfurt binder known as "Steiffer Hirsch I". Baptista Mantuanus's De patientia, a treatise counselling patience and the acceptance of pain as a way of purification and spiritual elevation and of coming closer to God, was first published in Brescia in 1497. It contains one of the earliest printed references to Columbus's discovery of America. In discussing the extent of the law of Christ (bk. 3, chap. 11), Mantuan mentions "islands inhabited by man, also much larger than ours," unknown to Strabo, Ptolemy, Pomponius Mela, and Pliny, but which have recently been found through the agency of the kings of Spain.That work is preceded by two by Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499). De triplici vita, first published in Florence in 1489, is one of the most interesting psycho-medical texts of the Italian Renaissance, "the first treatise on the health of the intellectual" (Kaske & Clark, p. 3), to which is added the text of Ficino's "Regimen" of the School of Salerno. The second work, De religione christiana, was first published in an authorized Italian translation in Florence in 1474, the original Latin in 1476 (the Latin text is included here). Seeki

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