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JOACHIM, Abbot of Fiore

Profetie dell'abbate Gioachino, et di Anselmo vescovo di Marsico con l'imagini in dissegno, intorno a' pontefici passati, e c'hanno a venire
Venetia
Christoforo Tomasini
1646
€400 - €600

"4to, title vignette, 96 (= 88) pp with 34 large woodcut plates (30 portraits of popes, a wheel of fortune, an ""Oraculum Turcicum""...) decorated with woodcut vignettes, headpieces and initials. Text in Latin and Italian. (minor dampstaining and spotting, small wormhole in the lower corners of the first lvs.). Limp boards"

"Collection of cryptic predictions concerning the Papacy ascribed to the 12th-century Italian mystical theologian Joachim of Fiore and possibly fictitious 13th-century Bishop Anselm. Joachim is mentioned in Umberto Eco's medieval mystery ""The Name of the Rose"". Ref. Caillet 5540 (1525-edition)"

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