1559 HISTORY of PROTESTANT REFORMATION & BABYLONIAN PERSIAN GREEK & ROMAN EMPIRE

SLEIDAN, Johann


De Statu Religionis et Reipublicae, Carolo quinto, Caesare, Commentarii.

Additus est Liber XXVI

[bound with]:

De Quatuor Summis Imperiis, Babylonico, Persico, Graeco, & Romano,
Libri tres

Excudebat Conradus Badius ;1559


459 lvs, [14]; 50 lvs, [12]

Johann Sleidan's work represents one of the highest moments of political and religious historiography of the sixteenth century.
Humanist, diplomat and direct observer of the events of the Reformation, Sleidan is an intellectual who tries to give order and rationality to an era marked by doctrinal conflicts, institutional transformations and deep social tensions.
The Commentarii are often considered the first great "official" history of the Protestant Reformation, with the figure of Charles V and the struggle for the religious and political unity of the Empire at the center.

In the second work, Sleidan traces the history of the great ancient empires — Babylonian, Persian, Greek and Roman.

Full parchment with manuscript title on the spine. Lack of upper margin of the title page, good internal condition, only slight external halo that disappears on folio 47, other in the lower margin. of the last leaves of the first and second sixteenth centuries. Complete


 Original vellum binding with manuscript title to the spine

Small repair to the upper margin of the title page, very good otherwise


 Size: 3.5 by 5.5"

Text in Latin
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