In hoc volumine hec continentur. Platyne de vitis maxi. ponti. historia periocunda. Diligenter recognita: et nunc tantum integre impressa. Raphaellis Volaterrani historia. De vita quattuor maxi. ponti. nuper edita & in fine posita. Platyne de falso & vero bono dyalogus. ad Sixtum. 4. ponti. maxi. Platyne contra amores dyalogus. ad Lodouicum Stellam mantuanum. Platyne de vera nobilitate dyalogus. ad amplissimum Vrsinum Tranensem episcopum. Platyne de optimo ciue dyalogus. ad Laurentium medicem. Platyne Panegyricus. in laudem reuerendis. cardinalis Niceni: & patriarche Constantinopolitani. Diuersorum academicorum panegyrici in Platyne parentalia

Folio (300x208 mm). CCXXV [i.e. 223], [1 blank] leaves. Collation: a-u⁸ x⁶ A-F⁸ G¹⁰. Leaf G10 is a blank. Large woodcut vignette on title page (a copy of that of the 1511 edition). Historiated initials. Later vellum, red edges. Worm tracks to the lower margin of a few leaves not affecting the text, some marginal stains, a very good copy.

Nice edition of the famous Platina's Vitae pontificum, which also contains the Historia de vita quattuor maximorum Pontificum (ll. x2v-x6r) by Raffaele Maffei (1451-1522) and other works by Platina: De falso et vero bono, Contra amores, De vera nobilitate, De optimo cive, Panegyricus in laudem Bessarionis episcopi, Oratio de pace Italiae confirmanda and bello Thurcis indicendo, Diversorum Academicorum panegyrici in parentalia B. Platinae.

Edit 16, CNCE37617; Essling, 1431; Sander, 5745.

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