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FIRST EDITION OF CAMERARIO'S TREATISE ON THE RULES OF FASTING, PRAYER AND...

FIRST EDITION OF CAMERARIO'S TREATISE ON THE RULES OF FASTING, PRAYER AND CHARITY

Camerario, Bartolomeo.Bartholomaei Camerarii Beneventani, De Ieivnio, Oratione, Et Eleemosyna, Dialogi Qvatvor.Lvtetiae (Paris): Vascosan, 1556.

4to, later stiff vellum, ff. 164.
Dedicated to Diane de Poitiers, Duchess of Valentinois.

First edition of an uncommon treatise dedicated to the discipline of fasting, prayer and charity.

Bartolomeo Camerario (Benevento, 1497–Roma, 1564) was an Italian jurist.He taught civil and feudal law at University of Naples between 1524 and 1526; in 1529 was appointed President of the Camera Sommaria and then as Conservator of Real Patrimonio, in order to administrate the Italian finances.In 1548 was suspended from his office and convicted for various crimes: he fled to France , where he devoted himself to writing some theological-juridical works and only in 1556 he returned to Rome.

Provenance: 17th century inscription P. Francesco da Lucca at title-page.

References: IT\ICCU\BVEE\003737. OCLC 80032924 locates 3 copies in US libraries (Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC; University of Chicago Library and Washington State University, Holland and Terrell Libraries).