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A BELGIAN HUMANIST TRAVELS THROUGH ITALY4to (217x157 mm). [8] leaves. Collation: A-B4. Printer's device on title page. Early 20th-century half cloth, some light browning, a fine copy from the library of Abel Lefranc.
VERY RARE FIRST EDITION of this speech held on October 25, 1540 in the Collège de Sainte- Barbe in Paris. In it the Belgian humanist gives an account of his travel to Italy. In autumn 1539 Latomus was granted leave to visit Italy at the king's expenses. Over Lyons and the Mont Cenis he attained Turin and continued to Milan, Brescia, Padua (where he listened to the lectures of Alessandro Sozzini and met the scholar Lazzaro Buonamici), Verona, Venice (where he attended the lectures of Giovanni Battista Egnazio), Ferrara (where he was welcomed by Renée de France and where he met Celio Calcagnini), Bologna, Florence, Siena and Rome. In Bologna, where he is documented on February 11, 1540, he appears to have received a legal doctorate. On his way back to Paris he passed through Basel,… Read More
