First edition - ERASMUS (Desiderius). Ecclesiastes... - Lot 9 - Les ventes Damien Voglaire SRL

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First edition - ERASMUS (Desiderius). Ecclesiastes... - Lot 9 - Les ventes Damien Voglaire SRL
First edition - ERASMUS (Desiderius). Ecclesiastes - Des. Erasmi Rot. Ecclesiastae sive de ratione concionandi, libri quatuor, opus recens, nec antehac à quoquam excusum. Basileae, in officina Frobeniana, anno M D XXXV [Basel, Froben, 1535], in-folio, 4 unnumbered leaves, including title leaf (blank verso) and leaf with portrait of Erasmus in medallion (blank recto), 444 numbered pages (jumping from 104 to 109 by mistake, without missing), 6 unnumbered leaves (with the colophon and the beautiful typographical mark of Froben already found on the title), bound in brown speckled calf, decorated smooth spine, title-piece, red edges (19th c. binding?), copy washed, with a glossary of the original. ), copy washed, title leaf carefully restored, traces of light spotting on the upper outer corner strongly attenuated. A fine copy. Some later marginal annotations. Machiels, E 402. Returning to Basel to supervise the publication of Ecclesiastes, he was offered to become a cardinal by Pope Paul III. He refused. Erasmus was deeply affected by the execution on the scaffold of his great friend Thomas More in August 1535. "In the execution of More I myself die a little," he writes to a friend. "We were two friends with a single soul between us. In 1535 he completed the great four-book treatise on the sacred speaker, Ecclesiastes, which had been requested of him many years before and in which he endeavoured to adapt the precepts of the art of oratory (Quintilian, Cicero, Rhetoric to Herennius) to the aim of Christian preaching: to transform hearts, to lead them to turn towards Christ, the hereafter, eternity, without attaching any importance other than propaedeutic to ecclesiastical ceremonies and rites. He died on the night of July 11-12, 1536. He was buried in the cathedral of Basel, which is now Protestant. On January 19, 1543, his books were publicly burned in Milan along with those of Luther. Rare in such beautiful condition.
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