Celio Secondo. Pasquillorum tomi duo. Quorum primo versibus ac rhythmis, altero soluta oratione conscripta quamplurima continentur, ad exhilarandum, confirmandumque hos perturbatissimo rerum statu pij

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CURIONE, Celio Secondo. Pasquillorum tomi duo. Quorum primo versibus ac rhythmis, altero soluta oratione conscripta quamplurima continentur, ad exhilarandum, confirmandumque hos perturbatissimo rerum statu pij lectoris animum, apprime conducentia. Eorum catalogum proxima à praefatione pagella reperies. Eleutheropoli [i.e. Basel]: n.n. 1544. Small 8vo. 18th-century calf, spine richly gilt in compartments, red morocco lettering piece, edges stained red; pp. [16], 537 [i.e. 637], [1 (blank)], woodcut initials, bound without final blank; extremities a little worn, small chips to spine ends, front free endpaper renewed; title a little soiled with old repairs (not affecting text), occasional, light marginal dampstaining, paper flaw to f. h6, tiny worm holes to upper margin of C1-D6 and to lower margin of ff. K1-O8 (always far from printed surface), tiny hole to last two leaves (touching one letter); overall a very good and crisp copy; early marginal annotation to p. 31. First edition of this collection of “pasquinades”, anonymous lampoons originally posted in public places in Rome, and other anti-papal texts in Latin, Italian and German: a key source for the history of political satire during the Reformation. Celio Secondo Curione (1503-1569) was a humanist scholar from Cirié, in Piedmont. While serving as professor of humanist letters at the University of Pavia, he converted to Protestantism. In 1542, he fled to Switzerland to escape religious persecution and settled in Basel, whe

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