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FIRST EDITION OF CIPOLLA'S JURISPRUDENCE ON BUILDINGS IN THE...
FIRST EDITION OF CIPOLLA'S JURISPRUDENCE ON BUILDINGS IN THE RENAISSANCE
[Administrative Law, Buldings] Cipolla, Bartolomeo. D. Bartholomei Cepollae Veronensis v.i.d. praeclarissimi Commentaria in titu. ff. de aedilitio edicto, nunc primum in lucem edita. Cui accessere cuique legi & s. summaria, cum amplissimo [...] repertorio. Venice: [al segno della Fontana] 1550.
4to, contemporary limp vellum, ties renewed, ff. 167, [25, the last leaf is blank].
First edition of the Cipolla’s legal treatise collecting the building laws of the Renaissance.
The work was reprinted by Giunti in Lyon in the same year.
He gave rise to the phrase “Devices of Cepola”, due to the law-quirks of the Italian lawyer, teaching to elude the most express law and to perpetuate lawsuits.
Provenance: Inscription Priami Accursini Liber .
References: Not in Adams. Cnce, Censimento, 12577. OCLC, 21838181: only two copies in USA (Berkeley Law Library and Library of Congress).