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Brunet IV, 799. Graesse V, 400. Panzer VIII, 489. Ebert 17728. Hur-
ter IV, 1084. Reu sch I, 59 etc.: “Das Buch (De immortalo animae) wurde von
, Mönchen dem Patriarchen von Venedig denuncirt und von diesem Pomponazzi als
Häretiker erklärt und das Buch verbrannt, auch an Bembo geschickt, damit auch der
Papst es verdamme. Leo X. tat dieses nicht, beauftragte aber Augustinus . Niphus
aus Sessa, dasselbe zu widerlegen. Pomponazzi schrieb gegen diese Widerlegung ein
Defensorium, bat aber den mit ihm befreundeten Dominicaner Chrysostomus Javellus,
seinem Buche eine Widerlegung dei- in dem Defensorium vorgebrachten Argumente
für die Sterblichkeit der Seele beizufügen, und erhielt nun von dem Inquisitor von
Bologna die Erlaubniss, sein Buch mit Beifügung aller darauf bezüglichen Schriften
neu drucken zu lassen.” The work “De immortalitate a n i m a.e” was most
rigidly suppressed and must be considered one of the rarest among the
early books of Philoso ph y of first rate importance. For it is from
Pomponazzi that we may trace the modern conception of the total divorce of meta-
physical speculation from the dogmas of revealed religion. This treatise is primarily
a commentary on Aristotle’s De Anima, but Pomponazzi goes on do discuss the
relation of the soul to the body and analysing the arguments for the immortality,
he comes to the conclusion that they do not hold and that, as far as logical reasoning
goes, there is no proof that the soul does not perish with the body. It is only through
revealed religion that we have knowledge of the soul’s immortality which cannot be
proved by philosophic argument. — Slightly water-stained in lower margins and
corners, otherwise a very good large copy.
85 PONT ANUS, Joa. Jovianus. Opera omnia in 3 tom. digesta. Basil.,
Andr. Cratander, 1538. With printer’s mark at the end; small woodcut
initials. Printed in italics. 12 Ivs., 615 pp. Blind tooled pigskin (clasps
missing, lowner corner of front cover worn). f 38.—
Pontanus, an Italian humanist and poet, was born in 1426. At the age of 22 he
went to Naples, where he remained for the rest of his life. He became a friend of
the famous scholar Beccadolli. He was tutor to the sons of Alphonso the Magnanimous,
political adviser, military secretary and chancellor to the Aragonese dynasty. He
illustrates very clearly the importance of a man of letters in Italy. He arrived in
Naples a penniless scholar, and became almost immediately one of the most important
men in the kingdom. He died in 1503. Pontanus had a good Latin style and the
faculty, rare among his contemporaries, of expressing the facts of modern life, the
actualities of personal emotion, in language sufficiently classical yet always charac-
teristic of the man. (From the Enc. Britt.) — On title an ownership entry. — A
few wormholes throughout, some traces of use, but a good copy.
86 —. De Sermone libri 6, De Aspiratione libri 2. Belli, quod Ferdinandus
senior Neapolitanus Rex cum loanne Andeganiensium Duce gessit
libri 6. Florentiae, Phil. luntae haer., 1520, quarto nonas Maij. Printed
in Italics. With printers’ mark at the end. 2 (blank) 286, 4 Ivs. Old
limp vellum. • f 60.—
Renouard p. 45, 31. This is the 4th part of the opera of Pontanus. Cont. an
exact description of the war between Ferdinand II and Isabelle de Castille against
the Neapolitans. In the last of these books the author, speaking about the ancient
Italy and the deluge during the reign of Deucalion, says about Atlantis (Fol.
207) : “Qua tempestate Atlanta absorpta insula, rerum quondam in occasu potita,
unde etiam nomen pelago inditum, irrumpente oceano, mare hoc immissum est
méditérraneum, quo tunc summersa atque hausta fuere cuncta, quibus nunc i n-
teriectis Europa, Africaque inter se atque Asia distine n-
tur, fabulosa sane res caeterum quae nec a natura ipsa
rerum abhorreat ” — A few spots, but a fine copy.
87 PORTA, Jo. Bapt. Magiae naturalis libri 20. Acc. index copiosissimus.
Frankfurt, ap. Andr. Wechel heredes, Claudium Marnium & Jo.
Aubrium, 1591. With diagrams and woodcuts in the text. 18 Ivs., 669
pp. Red-brown polished calf, with a richly gilt centerpiece on front-
cover showing “Fortuna” holding a wind-swelled sail, in the back-
ground houses, gilt ornamental centerpiece on lower corner, gilt border
and fleurons on both covers, back decorated in blind, gilt and gauffred
edges (XVIIth century binding, slightly hubbed). f 120.—
“Porta’s Magia Naturalis in 20 books differs completely from that in 4 books and
is one of the most important works on natural science publ. during the 16th cent.
Many of the superstitious and even puerile passages of the latter were left out in
this work and 16 new books added. It is a great storehouse of fact and fiction,
brought together from every available source Of great interest is book VI, which
shows that the production of artificial gems must have been far advanced in Porta’s
Ludwig Rosenthal’s Antiquariaat, ’s-Gravelandseweg 102, Hilversum-Holland. — Cat. 197
15
Brunet IV, 799. Graesse V, 400. Panzer VIII, 489. Ebert 17728. Hur-
ter IV, 1084. Reu sch I, 59 etc.: “Das Buch (De immortalo animae) wurde von
, Mönchen dem Patriarchen von Venedig denuncirt und von diesem Pomponazzi als
Häretiker erklärt und das Buch verbrannt, auch an Bembo geschickt, damit auch der
Papst es verdamme. Leo X. tat dieses nicht, beauftragte aber Augustinus . Niphus
aus Sessa, dasselbe zu widerlegen. Pomponazzi schrieb gegen diese Widerlegung ein
Defensorium, bat aber den mit ihm befreundeten Dominicaner Chrysostomus Javellus,
seinem Buche eine Widerlegung dei- in dem Defensorium vorgebrachten Argumente
für die Sterblichkeit der Seele beizufügen, und erhielt nun von dem Inquisitor von
Bologna die Erlaubniss, sein Buch mit Beifügung aller darauf bezüglichen Schriften
neu drucken zu lassen.” The work “De immortalitate a n i m a.e” was most
rigidly suppressed and must be considered one of the rarest among the
early books of Philoso ph y of first rate importance. For it is from
Pomponazzi that we may trace the modern conception of the total divorce of meta-
physical speculation from the dogmas of revealed religion. This treatise is primarily
a commentary on Aristotle’s De Anima, but Pomponazzi goes on do discuss the
relation of the soul to the body and analysing the arguments for the immortality,
he comes to the conclusion that they do not hold and that, as far as logical reasoning
goes, there is no proof that the soul does not perish with the body. It is only through
revealed religion that we have knowledge of the soul’s immortality which cannot be
proved by philosophic argument. — Slightly water-stained in lower margins and
corners, otherwise a very good large copy.
85 PONT ANUS, Joa. Jovianus. Opera omnia in 3 tom. digesta. Basil.,
Andr. Cratander, 1538. With printer’s mark at the end; small woodcut
initials. Printed in italics. 12 Ivs., 615 pp. Blind tooled pigskin (clasps
missing, lowner corner of front cover worn). f 38.—
Pontanus, an Italian humanist and poet, was born in 1426. At the age of 22 he
went to Naples, where he remained for the rest of his life. He became a friend of
the famous scholar Beccadolli. He was tutor to the sons of Alphonso the Magnanimous,
political adviser, military secretary and chancellor to the Aragonese dynasty. He
illustrates very clearly the importance of a man of letters in Italy. He arrived in
Naples a penniless scholar, and became almost immediately one of the most important
men in the kingdom. He died in 1503. Pontanus had a good Latin style and the
faculty, rare among his contemporaries, of expressing the facts of modern life, the
actualities of personal emotion, in language sufficiently classical yet always charac-
teristic of the man. (From the Enc. Britt.) — On title an ownership entry. — A
few wormholes throughout, some traces of use, but a good copy.
86 —. De Sermone libri 6, De Aspiratione libri 2. Belli, quod Ferdinandus
senior Neapolitanus Rex cum loanne Andeganiensium Duce gessit
libri 6. Florentiae, Phil. luntae haer., 1520, quarto nonas Maij. Printed
in Italics. With printers’ mark at the end. 2 (blank) 286, 4 Ivs. Old
limp vellum. • f 60.—
Renouard p. 45, 31. This is the 4th part of the opera of Pontanus. Cont. an
exact description of the war between Ferdinand II and Isabelle de Castille against
the Neapolitans. In the last of these books the author, speaking about the ancient
Italy and the deluge during the reign of Deucalion, says about Atlantis (Fol.
207) : “Qua tempestate Atlanta absorpta insula, rerum quondam in occasu potita,
unde etiam nomen pelago inditum, irrumpente oceano, mare hoc immissum est
méditérraneum, quo tunc summersa atque hausta fuere cuncta, quibus nunc i n-
teriectis Europa, Africaque inter se atque Asia distine n-
tur, fabulosa sane res caeterum quae nec a natura ipsa
rerum abhorreat ” — A few spots, but a fine copy.
87 PORTA, Jo. Bapt. Magiae naturalis libri 20. Acc. index copiosissimus.
Frankfurt, ap. Andr. Wechel heredes, Claudium Marnium & Jo.
Aubrium, 1591. With diagrams and woodcuts in the text. 18 Ivs., 669
pp. Red-brown polished calf, with a richly gilt centerpiece on front-
cover showing “Fortuna” holding a wind-swelled sail, in the back-
ground houses, gilt ornamental centerpiece on lower corner, gilt border
and fleurons on both covers, back decorated in blind, gilt and gauffred
edges (XVIIth century binding, slightly hubbed). f 120.—
“Porta’s Magia Naturalis in 20 books differs completely from that in 4 books and
is one of the most important works on natural science publ. during the 16th cent.
Many of the superstitious and even puerile passages of the latter were left out in
this work and 16 new books added. It is a great storehouse of fact and fiction,
brought together from every available source Of great interest is book VI, which
shows that the production of artificial gems must have been far advanced in Porta’s
Ludwig Rosenthal’s Antiquariaat, ’s-Gravelandseweg 102, Hilversum-Holland. — Cat. 197
