ATTRACTIVE LIFE

Pianetti, Cardolo Maria: Vita della venerabil serva di Dio suor Alessandra Sabini da Rocca contrada, terziara professa di S. Francesco [...] Consacrata all’ illustrissimo, e reverendissimo signore Monsignore Gian Battista Visconti, patrizio Milanese [...] In Jesi, per Gian Battista de Giulij 1733.

Fine copy of this attractively-produced and illustrated life of the Franciscan tertiary, and founder of monastic institutions in Italy’s Marche region, venerable Alessandra Sabini (1499-1589). At pp. 113-140 are a catalogue of medical miracles associated with her.

Details

First edition. One volume, 17.7 cms. x 11.7 cms., octavo, pp. [10] 150 + intaglio plate of the subject (bound at end of prelims.) First page, a large woodcut armorial of dedicatee Gian Battista Visconti (verso of this leaf blank). Woodcut inhabited initial to sig. A3 recto, typogaphical decoration. Light browning, small touch of soiling to top margin of first page, bound in vellum over boards, edges sprinkled red.

SBN: IT\ICCU\RMSE\062077.