Vergil (Polydore).
De la origine e de gl'invenori de la leggi. Costumi, scientie, arti et di tutto quello che a l'humano uso conuiensi, con la espostione dil paternostroz ogni cosa di Latino in volgar tradotto da Pietro Lauro Modonese
1st edition
Venice: Gabriel Gioli di Ferrari, 1543
(The origin and the inventors of the law. Costumes, sciences, arts and everything that human beings use in common...)
title and final leaf verso with woodcut device, italic type,
occasional underlining in red,
title with small marginal repair, a little light spotting,
early signature at foot of title,
D.L. Cumming signature,
bookplate of John Betts, Pembury,
Vellum bound
Size 4 by 6"
Text in Italian
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Polydore Vergil or Virgil (Italian: Polidoro Virgili; commonly Latinised as Polydorus Vergilius; c.?1470 – 18 April 1555), widely known as Polydore Vergil of Urbino, was an Italian humanist scholar, historian, priest and diplomat, who spent much of his life in England.
He is particularly remembered for his works the Proverbiorum libellus (1498), a collection of Latin proverbs; De inventoribus rerum (1499), a history of discoveries and origins; and the Anglica Historia (drafted by 1513; printed 1534), an influential history of England.
He has been dubbed the "Father of English History".
Vergil is sometimes referred to in contemporary documents as Polydore Vergil Castellensis or Castellen, leading some to assume that he was a kinsman of his patron, Cardinal Adriano Castellesi. However, it is more likely that the alias simply indicates that he was in Castellesi's service.
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