Blount, Thomas-Pope, Censura celebriorum authorum siue Tractatus in quo varia virorum doctorum de clarissimis cujiusque seculi scriptoribus iudicia traduntur. Omnia in studiosorum gratiam collegit, ThomasPope Blount, AngloBritannus baronettus
Geneva: Samuelem de Tournes, 1696
A critique on the most celebrated authors, concerning whom the various opinions of the most learned scholars are given. Nearly 600 authors are listed. ( Bacone, Barclay, Bellarmino, Bembo, Boccaccio, Boccalini, Calvino, Campanella, Cardano, Chaucer, Copernico, Dante, Ermete Trismegisto, Esiodo, Galileo, Gesner, Grotius, Guicciardini, Hobbes, Lipsius, Lullus, Paolo Manuzio, Omero, Pico della Mirandola, Thomas More, Paracelso, Petrarca, Rabelais, Sannazaro, Savonarola, Scaligero, Selden, Tasso, Valla, Vesalio, etc)
"An erudite work, much esteemed by the curious." (Lowndes).
(8) + 1062 + (7) pp
Fully bound in dark-brown leather with marbled papers, rebacked with original spine laid down, gilt-stamped on spine, black morocco title label on spine, small sections of title page cut out.
Size 9 x 7 1/4 in.
Text in Latin -------------------- Sir Thomas Pope Blount, 1st Baronet (12 September 1649 – 27 January 1697) was an English baronet. ======================
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