Covo Castello de Bergamo
| Reference: | CO-431 |
| Author | Giacomo Filippo FORESTI |
| Year: | 1490 ca. |
| Zone: | Covo |
| Printed: | Venice |
| Measures: | 160 x 255 mm |
€150.00
| Reference: | CO-431 |
| Author | Giacomo Filippo FORESTI |
| Year: | 1490 ca. |
| Zone: | Covo |
| Printed: | Venice |
| Measures: | 160 x 255 mm |
€150.00
Description
Page containing a small woodcut view of the city, depicted with many fantasy elements. Sheet from the famous Supplementum chronicarum orbis ab initio mundi by Giacomo Filippo Foresti.
The Supplementum is a narrative for annals in 15 books containing a kind of universal history of the world from its origin to 1482. In 1483 it was first printed in Venice and dedicated to the Magnifica Comunità di Bergamo. The Supplementum is a kind of general history that aims to collect in a single book the news worthy of being handed down to posterity, scattered up to that time in disparate texts. The narrative proceeds by years, in strict chronological order: in the first edition the work consisted of fifteen books; in the 1503 edition Foresti added a sixteenth book containing the events of the last twenty years. Subsequently updated several times; a total of six incunable editions are known and six printed in the 1500s, the last of which was in 1553. The first Italian edition is printed in Venice in 1535, and this page is taken from it. The woodcut plates depicting the cities first appear in 1513 and are implemented in number as editions follow. The Supplementum Chronicarum (in omnimoda historia novissime congesta) has as its main source the Genealogiae deorum gentilium libri and the Chronicon of St. Antoninus.
Giacomo Filippo of Bergamo (lat. Bergomensis 1434-1520), was an Augustinian religious hermit. A member of the noble family of Count Foresti, Jacopo entered the Order of the Hermits of St. Augustine, and was prior in Imola and Forli.
Woodcut, in excellent condition.
Bibliografia
Pianetti Elisa, Fra’ Jacopo Filippo Foresti nel quadro della cultura bergamasca, in “Bergomum” Bollettino della Civica Biblioteca vol.2, 1939.
Giacomo Filippo FORESTI (Bergamo 1434 - 1520)
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Giacomo Filippo Foresti da Bergamo was an Augustinian monk, known as the author of several significant early printed works. He was a chronicler and Biblical scholar.
His Supplementum chronicarum (first printed at Venice, 1483) was a supplement to the usual universal chronicle; it ran to numerous subsequent editions. Though it mixes mythological figures, treated euhemeristically as historical ones, on an equal footing with Christian cultural heroes, with additional chapters on the Sibyls and the Trojan War, amongst other things, it records Giovanni da Carignano's lost work on papal contacts at Avignon in 1306 with Ethiopian visitors.
His De claris mulieribus updated the work of Boccaccio of the same title. It was dedicated to Beatrice of Aragon. This book, as well as the Supplementum, influenced many subsequent publications
He also wrote a well-known confessional.
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Giacomo Filippo FORESTI (Bergamo 1434 - 1520)
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Giacomo Filippo Foresti da Bergamo was an Augustinian monk, known as the author of several significant early printed works. He was a chronicler and Biblical scholar.
His Supplementum chronicarum (first printed at Venice, 1483) was a supplement to the usual universal chronicle; it ran to numerous subsequent editions. Though it mixes mythological figures, treated euhemeristically as historical ones, on an equal footing with Christian cultural heroes, with additional chapters on the Sibyls and the Trojan War, amongst other things, it records Giovanni da Carignano's lost work on papal contacts at Avignon in 1306 with Ethiopian visitors.
His De claris mulieribus updated the work of Boccaccio of the same title. It was dedicated to Beatrice of Aragon. This book, as well as the Supplementum, influenced many subsequent publications
He also wrote a well-known confessional.
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