Alcune cose sopra la Passione del Salvatore Nostro Iesu Christo: raccolte per Tullio Crispoldo da Riete et reviste & corrette per il medemo, et stampate di sua permissione

8vo (150x97 mm). [120] leaves. Collation: A-P⁸. Printer's device on the title page. Full-page wooducut illustration of Christ on the cross on title-page verso, repeated also on l. H3r. Colophon on l. P8r. Later marbled wrappers. On the title page manuscript note “Theolofi vida”. Title page soiled, some occasional light staining, a good copy.

Second edition (first: Venice, Stefano Nicolini da Sabbio, 1539). The work was published again in Venice in 1547 by Pietro Nicolini da Sabbio in the Latin translation of Pietro Francesco Zini. On the mysteries of the Passion of Christ Crispolti also returned later in the Considerazioni ed avvertimenti spirituali sopra la Passione di Nostro Signore Gesù Cristo (Modena, 1559) and in the Avvertimenti spirituali sopra la Passione del Nostro Signore Giesu Christo (Venice, 1570).

Crispolti was born in Rieti in 1510. While in Rome in 1527, perhaps for study purposes, he witnessed the sack of the city and was so shocked that he decided to embrace an ecclesiastical career. Crispolti's subsequent move to Verona was probably linked to the arrival of Bishop Gian Matteo Giberti in that city in 1528. In Verona, Crispolti was part of the group of scholars who gathered around Giberti. Crispolti also accompanied Giberti on his pastoral visit in 1530, sometimes acting as a preacher. Deeply interested in Giberti's work of reforming the clergy of the diocese and in the practical application of the Christian doctrine, Crispolti began an extensive production of devotional works. In 1560 he moved to Rome, after having travelled to Milan in the company of Bonsignore Cacciaguerra. In Rome he continued to publish devotional works until his death in 1573. An expert on the Holy Scriptures, Crispolti was deeply involved in the Catholic renewal movement before and after the countil of Trent, and was dangerously exposed to doctrines later considered heretical (F. Petrucci, Crispolti, Tullio, in: “Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani”, vol. 30, Rome, 1984).

Edit 16, CNCE13780.

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