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30891
A censor tore ten leaves from this collection of Savonarola's sermons, removing the prohibited third sermon entitled "Ecce gladius Domini" ("Behold the Sword of God"), which had alarmed church officials with its apocalyptic warnings. Several other…
30874
This sermon by Savonarola, never prohibited by the Index, was inscribed by an early owner "Si puo leggere senza scrupolo" ("You may read this without scruple").
30860
In Bridwell Library's copy of Savonarola's sermons on the Books of Ruth and Micah, Sermon 7 on the third chapter of Ruth was censored by the removal of twelve leaves (folios 82-93). Only the beginning and the very end of the sermon remain.
30858
Eight of the twenty-six sermons on Exodus in this edition (numbered 1-3, 6, 10, 12, 20, and 23) are marked "questa e prohibita" ("this is prohibited").
30855
The title page of this edition of Savonarola's Lenten sermons on the prophecies of Amos bears a woodcut depicting the author's public execution. While the assembled men and women look to his empty pulpit, the martyr, engulfed in flames, holds aloft a…
30854
In this copy of Savonarola's sermons on the Book of Ezechiel, the three prohibited sermons in this collection were left undisturbed but a later note states that Sermons 21, 32, and 40 were cited in the Index librorum prohibitorum. The woodcut on the…
30847
In this collection of forty-seven sermons on the Book of Job, a censor marked the beginning of Sermon 14 as "proibita" ("prohibited") in brown ink, and the bottom right corner of the first leaf of the sermon was torn away. It was later repaired, with…
17615
A genuine binding by Icilio Federico Joni, who was known for his forgeries. This binding wasn't intended as a forgery. Binding is inspired by Alessandro Piccolomini.
07041
Among the first women known to have been directly involved in the production of printed books were the Dominican nuns at the Convent of San Jacopo di Ripoli in Florence. The exhibited book, the first vernacular edition of this early Latin biography…
06585
In one of his principal works, the Compendio di revelatione, Savonarola claimed that his apocalyptic revelations were God's call for the reform of the Church and the Florentine public.
06146
Small folio edition of the Italian translation of the Bible by Niccolò Malermi (c. 1422–1481) including woodcut illustrations.
AFC 3154 -
Laudes Creaturarum
This publication offers a contrast of carefully set type and broad gestural strokes
10118 -
Seven Saxon Poems
Embossed seals and sculptural reliefs on the binding and case designed by Arnoldo Pomodoro. Verona, Italy: Plain Wrapper Press, 1974. Signed by the author and the sculptor below the colophon. Numbered 56 in an edition of one hundred twenty.
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