Miniature Book News, Number 41, June 1980 Page: 6
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JUSTUS LIPSIUS,
Latinized name of Joest Lips, Belgium scholar and professor of history at
Leyden in Louvain. He wrote of the ancient Greeks Seneca and Tacitus; Lived
from 1547 to 1606.
* De Constantia. Ex officina Plantiniana, Raphelengii, 1605. 255 pages, Latin
and Greek. 216/, by 17/8 in., green Mor.
* ibid. Amsterdam, Apud Guilj. Caesium, 1624. 188 pages, Latin and Greek.
213/16 by 17/ in., Brown calf.
* ibid. Lugduni Batavorum (Leyden, Holland). Ex officina Joannis Maire, 1628.
191 pages, contemporary calf, 3% x 13/4.
* ibid. Amstelodami, Elzevirii, 1652. 121 pages, 4 by 2 in.
* ibid. Amstelodami, 1631. 191 pages., 3 by 17/ in., red morocco.
SIR THOMAS MORE
English statesman, humanist, poet, andfriend of Erasmus. Livedfrom 1478 to
1535. His most known work is UTOPIA (1516). Beheaded as a traitor when he
refused to uphold King Henry the Eighth as being supreme above the Pope in
Rome. UTOPIA (No where) is an island where everything is perfect and ideal
(morals, politics, etc.)
* Utopia. Apud Guili Janssonium Blaeuw. Amsterdam, 1629. 269 pages, 37/8 by
1'5/,e inches, Vellum.
* Utopia. Cologne, 1629. 266 pages, 31/2 by 13/4 in., red morocco.
* Utopia. Amsterdam, Joannem Jansonium. 1631. 263 pages, 33/4 by 2 in.
PETRARCH, FRANCESCO
Italian poet, scholar, patriot, and humanist. Friend of Boccaccio; lived from
1304 to 1375. One of the great men of the Renaissance. Wrote about classical antiquity.
Best known for his poem "Rime in Vita e Morte de Madonna Laura" (Verses
on the Life and Death of My Lady Laura).
* De remedus utriusque fortunae. Venice, Alexander Paganino, 1515. 3/4 x 17/8
inches.
* Le Rime. Pickering, Londra. 1822. 237 pages, 3% by 21/8 inch. Red cloth.
* Ii Petrarca di nuovo ristampato. Venet, P. Deluchino, 1580. 3% by 13/4 inches.
6Frontispiece and title page from 1879 Venice edition of Le Rime by Petrarch.
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Edison, Julian I. Miniature Book News, Number 41, June 1980, periodical, June 1980; St. Louis, Missouri. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc9370/m1/6/: accessed March 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.