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GABRIEL, de Barletta

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GABRIEL, de Barletta

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Auction Date:2012 Oct 20 @ 11:00 (UTC+1)
Location:38 Molesworth Street, Dublin, Dublin, ., Ireland
GABRIEL, de Barletta, OP. Sermones Fratris Gabrielis Barelete … tam quadragesimales q[uam] de sanctis : nouiter impressi et vbi prius fuerunt interposita carmina Petrarche et Dantis in eode[m] vulgari modo per ... Johannem Anthonij ... sunt verbis latinis tra[n]slata. Colophon : Impressi Lugdunum : per ... Nicolaum Lupi, 1505 die vero 5 AprilisThe title-page printed in red and black, in two columns, black letter, with woodcut initials throughout, folios (4), clvi ; lxxxix, 2 parts in 1 volume, smalll 8vo, old, possibly 16C or 17C calf, rubbed and worn but sound and strong, the upper outer corner of the first three leaves frayed with loss of a few letters on 5 pages, light staining and signs of use, some contemporary marginalia : a good to very good, unsophisticated copy. An edition not in Adams. “Barletta, sometimes called Barlete, De Barolo or Barolus, born, according to some, in the Neapolitan territory at Barletta, whence he took his name, or, according to others, at Aquino ; died sometime after 1480. Little is known of his life other than that he was a Dominican and probably a pupil of St. Antoninus. All his contemporaries held him in high esteem as an orator. He was generally proposed, even during his lifetime, as the model orator … His sermons appeared at Brixen in 1497, and have been reprinted very frequently since … In form they are nothing else than the ordinary homily on the virtues and vices of life. He spares none of the foibles and weaknesses of his contemporaries, and in his denunciations passages of eloquent and biting sarcasm are often met with. At times he descends to an almost burlesque mimicry, as witness his sermon on the manner in which the rich ecclesiastic says the Lord's prayer. Coarse things are also to be found, but not so frequently as in the printed sermons of some of his rivals. He has been blamed for this coarseness by Bayle and Theophilus Raynaud, but his name has been completely vindicated by Dominic Casales.” – Catholic Encyclopaedia.LEYDEN PRINTED; RELIGION; SERMONS; DANTE; PETRARCH; ITALIAN LITERATURE; ; ; ; ; ;