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GIOACCHINO da Fiore (ca.1145-1202). Interpretatio...in Hieremiam Prophetam (sancto dicante spiritu) ad haec usq; tempora minime prospecta (nunc vero eius iam coepta impletione; intellectumq; dante vexatione) in dies magis perspicua fiet. Venice: Bernardinus Benalius, 20 November 1525.
4° (208 x 145mm). Title within a border composed of small woodcut blocks showing scenes from the Old and New Testaments, below the title a woodcut of a shield portraying a crowned angel, on the verso of a7 another border made up of the same blocks but in a different order, above the text a different shield, on the verso of a9 and a10 woodcuts of the Dragon of the Apocalypse, large historiated initial on a12r with a portrait of a pope, several woodcut diagrams. Modern polished calf gilt.
Second edition of this Franciscan treatise attributed to Gioacchino da Fiore, a Calabrian abbot, mystic and biblical commentator of noble birth, but more probably dating from the fourteenth century. Like most other Joachimist works it preached milleniarist and anti-papal doctrine and was a powerful weapon in sustaining the revolted Franciscans in their hope of an impending triumph. Although by 1260 almost all of Gioacchino's writings had been condemned, his doctrines influenced scholars and writers up to the middle of the sixteenth century, and the heterodox movements in Italy and beyond were, during that period, riddled with Joachimism. Dante held him in great esteem and placed him in Paradise. On the last page appears the set of verses entitled 'Excusatio Lazari' which appear in several of the books that Benalius and Lazarus de Doardis printed in partnership. It is curious to find them here, since Lazarus died in 1517. Adams J-211; Sander 3612.
4° (208 x 145mm). Title within a border composed of small woodcut blocks showing scenes from the Old and New Testaments, below the title a woodcut of a shield portraying a crowned angel, on the verso of a7 another border made up of the same blocks but in a different order, above the text a different shield, on the verso of a9 and a10 woodcuts of the Dragon of the Apocalypse, large historiated initial on a12r with a portrait of a pope, several woodcut diagrams. Modern polished calf gilt.
Second edition of this Franciscan treatise attributed to Gioacchino da Fiore, a Calabrian abbot, mystic and biblical commentator of noble birth, but more probably dating from the fourteenth century. Like most other Joachimist works it preached milleniarist and anti-papal doctrine and was a powerful weapon in sustaining the revolted Franciscans in their hope of an impending triumph. Although by 1260 almost all of Gioacchino's writings had been condemned, his doctrines influenced scholars and writers up to the middle of the sixteenth century, and the heterodox movements in Italy and beyond were, during that period, riddled with Joachimism. Dante held him in great esteem and placed him in Paradise. On the last page appears the set of verses entitled 'Excusatio Lazari' which appear in several of the books that Benalius and Lazarus de Doardis printed in partnership. It is curious to find them here, since Lazarus died in 1517. Adams J-211; Sander 3612.