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I.llmo ac Rever.mo Dno Iosepho Renato Imperiali S.Rom.Ecclesiae Generali Thesaurario Gloriosa SS. Martyrum Certamina Provt in Templo S.Stephani in Montecoelio. Nicolai Pomerancii Pictoris Egregii Manu Visvntvr Expressa Collegium Germanicum Et Hungaricum Patrono Svo Benemerent.mo D.D.
by Circignani, Niccolo (known as Pomarancio.)
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Roma, ca, 16980. Small folio. 300 x 210 mm., (12 x 8 ¼ inches). Engraved architectural title-page with two women holding the crown over the text, 31 number plates of Martyrs after paintings by Niccolo Circignani engraved by Giovanni Battista Cavaliere, plus and additional plate designed by Cornelio Cort of the Holy Trinity and presumably printed by Cavaliere. Bound in 17th century vellum with the arms of Cardinal Giuseppe Renato Imperiali gilt on both covers, set within decorative gilt borders.
As the title-page reads, this copy was printed specially for Cardinal Imperiali, a nobleman from Genoa and general treasurer under Pope Innocent XI. There is stamp of the Imperiali Library on the title-page as well as an inscription in brown ink. Along with the library stamp, there is printed in the pedestal on lower right of the architectural border, an "eagle with a crown", the arms of the Imperiali family, which is repeated on the covers of the vellum binding.
The book is a collection of 31 engravings after the frescoes that Niccolò Circignani, known as Pomarancio (1530-1597), painted around 1582 in the church of Santo Stefano Rotondo al Celio. Commission by Pope Gregory XIII, Pomarancio, with the help of Antonio Tempesta and Matteo da Siena, created a series of over thirty fresco painting honoring Catholic martyrs from both antiquity and the Reformation period. This cycle is considered one of Pomarancio's masterpieces.
In 1585 Giovanni Battista Cavalieri (1525-1601?) created a series of thirty-one engravings of Pomarancio's frescos of Christian martyrs and published them under the title, Ecclesiae militantis triumphi. Cavalieri was a noted artist and engraver who worked for many publishers until the 1570's when he began to produce work under his own name. In the early 1580's he produced two monumental series of effigies, one of the Popes and a second of the Roman Emperors, each with over one hundred engravings.
In 1595 a second edition of his "book of martyrs" was published with a different title-page, this one with a monumental architectural border with two women holding a crown over the title. It was this title-page border that was used to enclose the unique title that appears in this suite of plates given to Cardinal Imperiali in the 1680's. The engraved plates must have survived in the archive of Santo Stefano Rotondo and were used again one hundred years after they were created to produce this honorific publication for Cardinal Imperiali.
Mortimer. Italian 16th Century Books, I, nos. 125, 126 and 117-119. Brunet I, 1697.Cicognara I, 2008. Bury, Michael. The Print in Italy 1550-1620, p. 224.
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- I.llmo ac Rever.mo Dno Iosepho Renato Imperiali S.Rom.Ecclesiae Generali Thesaurario Gloriosa SS. Martyrum Certamina Provt in Templo S.Stephani in Montecoelio. Nicolai Pomerancii Pictoris Egregii Manu Visvntvr Expressa Collegium Germanicum Et Hungaricum Patrono Svo Benemerent.mo D.D.
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- Circignani, Niccolo (known as Pomarancio.)
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- ca, 16980
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De Simone Company Booksellers enjoyed its second opening as a book company in 2018 after a seventeen-year hiatus. Originally established in 1978, De Simone Company bought, sold, and evaluated rare books, manuscripts, and prints for twenty-two years before closing, when De Simone accepted the position as Curator of the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection at the Library of Congress.
De Simone held this position for fourteen years before moving to the Folger Shakespeare Library as the Eric Weinmann Librarian. In this position, he managed seven departments, including acquisitions, exhibitions, conservation, research services, and the Library's book, manuscript, and art collections. He held this position for three years before retiring in 2017 and reopening De Simone Company Booksellers.
Because of his experience in both the book trade and rare book librarianship, De Simone consults with institutions about the development and evaluation of their library collections. He is the author and editor of a number of books and articles on the history of book illustration and early bibliography.
He is a member of the ABAA (Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America), the ILAB (International League of Antiquarian Booksellers), the Print Council of America, the Grolier Club, the Association Internationale de Bibliophilie, the American Printing History Association, the Bibliographical Society of America. He is also the Treasurer of the Antiquarian Book Seminar Foundation, a 501c3, which support the Colorado Antiquarian Books Seminar (CABS). Recently he has been appointed Secretary of Breslauer Prize for Bibliography by the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers.
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