Chronica di Giovanni Carione con mirabile artificio composta
Venezia: Michele Tramezino, 1543. Carion Johannes / Pietro Lauro - Chronica di Giovanni Carione con mirabile artificio composta – 1543
Chronica di Giovanni Carione con mirabile artificio composta. Nella quale comprendesi il computo de gli anni, i mutamenti ne i regni e nella religione, et altri grandissimi successi. Nuovamente tradotta in volgare per Pietro Lauro modonese.
In Venetia, nel 1543 [Per Michele Tramezino il Vecchio].
Carion Johannes
Pietro Lauro
First Italian edition of the Chronicles of the astrologist, doctor and mathematician of the early 16th century.
The German scholar Johannes Carion, Italianized name Giovanni Carione (Bietigheim, 1499 - Berlin, 1538), was an astrologer, doctor, mathematician and historian. Mathematics teacher in Frankfurt, he wrote some "Ephemeris stretching from 1536 to 1550", and the "Practicae astrologicae", texts with a strong astrological imprint. The "Chronica", a sort of "summa" of universal history, is his best known text, and this is the first Italian edition.
> Scifoni, "Universal Biographical Dictionary", I, 836, "But he particularly owes his nomination to the "Cronica" which bears his name".
Adams, I, C-722. Graesse, II, 47. Brunet, I, 1578, does not mention the present Italian translation, but notes, "La Chronique connue sous le nom de Carrion est aujourd'hui entièrement délaissée, mais elle a eu pendant plus d'un siècle un si grand succès, surtout parmi les protestants, que Dommerich, dans son "Epistola de Johannis Carionis chronica", impr. en 1750, dir en avoir vu 28 editions;
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First Italian edition. The German scholar Johannes Carion, Italianized name Giovanni Carione (Bietigheim, 1499 - Berlin, 1538), was an astrologer, doctor, mathematician and historian. Mathematics teacher in Frankfurt, he wrote some "Ephemeris stretching from 1536 to 1550", and the "Practicae astrologicae", texts with a strong astrological imprint. The "Chronica", a sort of "summa" of universal history, is his best known text, and this is the first Italian edition.
> Scifoni, "Universal Biographical Dictionary", I, 836, "But he particularly owes his nomination to the "Cronica" which bears his name although it is the work of his disciple Melanchthon, who, dissatisfied with his master's first work, remade it entirely and published it in Wurtemberg in 1531.
At the same time Carion was printing his "Cronica". The two works had different translators. Ermanno Bonn made a Latin version of Melanchthon's chronicle, and J. Leblond translated Carion's into French". Work dedicated to Andrea Pisani.
Pg. (32 nn), 167 leaves numbered on the recto only, (2) complete text other copies number the leaves up to 175. Half leather binding with gilt titles on the spine. Plates decorated in polychrome. Small paper restoration and peeling on the title page. Typographic brand with female figure with books and landscape in the background. At the top, in a festoon, the indication "Sibilla".
368 pp
16,2 x 11,9 cm. Good. Item #88
Price: $400.00