Travesari ambrogio (1 risultati)

Vellum. Condizione: Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. [4], cccclxiv, and [4] pp, 1188 columns. With a full page engraved portrait of Ambrose by Carlo Gregori (1719-1759) before the title, red and black title page with an elaborate printer's mark with puti doing things to various printing implements. 2 large folios in full parchment of the time with gilt stamped titles on the spines, engraved initials, nicely printed. Red marbled edges. Stiff parchment covers are normally worn, boards slightly bowed, top of spines pulled with some vellum chipped away, some cracking of the parchment at the edges. Interiors have institutional stamps from a monastery in Philadelphia, along with a personal stamp from a Pennsylvania theologian, some minor foxing and aging, but otherwise clean and strong. Surprisingly hard to find in commerce, no auction records in the last 70 years. Ambrogio Travesari (1386-1439) was an Italian monk and great proponent of papal supremacy. But he is particularly interesting because he became convinced that the knowledge and wisdom of the Greek fathers was important to the modern church and he decided to learn Greek so that he could read them in the original. He worked with a Byzantine refugee from Constantinople for 10 years, translating Basil, Athanasius, Gregory of Nazianzus, and of course John Chrysostom, among others. As a result of his great respect for the Greek fathers, he attempted to bring the Eastern and Western churches together, at least to mediate the differences. "He supported the pope at Ferrara and Florence, and worked hard in the attempt to reconcile the Eastern and Western Churches. Bt in this council, and later, in that of Florence, Ambrose, by his efforts and charity toward some poor Greek bishops, greatly helped to bring about a union of the two Churches, the decree for which, 6 July 1439, he was called on to draw up. He died soon after. His feastday is celebrated by the Camaldolese Order on 20 November." Heavy and oversized for international shipping. ; Ex-Library; Folio 13" - 23" tall.…