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83. [PAPAL ELECTION.] Ceremoniale del conclave o
Esposizione di ciò, che si suol praticare per l’elezione del Sommo
Pontefice. Verona, Antonio Andreoni, 1758. £650
8vo, pp. 40, with 1 large folding printed plate (printed on both sides),
with electoral forms; large title vignette; contemporary stiff paste-paper
wrappers; a crisp copy.
First edition thus of the rules applying to the election of the pontiff. Detailed
information is given on the procedure and timetable of the conclave, selection
of electors, ballot, and the actual voting process, which comprises three
phases: the ‘pre-scrutiny’, the ‘scrutiny’, and the ‘post-scrutiny.’ During the
pre-scrutiny, the Masters of the Ceremonies prepare ballot papers bearing
the words Eligo in Summum Pontificem (‘I elect as Supreme Pontiff’) and
provide at least two to each cardinal elector. Examples of the ballot paper
which need to be completed by hand by each cardinal are bound in.
These ‘Ceremoniale’ was presumably published each time a new Pope
was elected, and later editions include 1769, 1799 and 1823. In 1758
Cardinal Carlo Rezzonico of Venice was elected, who under the name of
Clement XIII became 248th pope of the Catholic Church.
OCLC: V & A, Stuttgart.
susanne schulz-falster rare books catalogue eighteen
Classification of Knowledge – an Early Encyclopaedia
84. PASTRENGO, Guglielmo da. De originibus rerum libellus
... in quo agitur de scripturis virorum illustrium. De fundatoribus
urbium, de primis rerum nominibus, de inventaribus rerum, de
primus dignitatibus, deque magnificis institutionibus. Expurgatus
omni errore... a Michaele Angelo Blondo solerti rerum exploratore.
[colophon:] Venice, N. de Bascarinis, 1547. £2,400
8vo, ll. 131; staining to title page and first leaf of signature B, illegible
ownership inscription to title; very narrow short worm trace to margin
of signature C, touching some text, but no loss; nineteenth century
green crushed morocco, sides with double gilt filets and floral corner
devices, spine gilt in compartments, gilt lettering and numbering
directly to spine, a.e.g.
First edition of Patrengo’s important attempt at classification and organis
ation of knowledge, in effect a humanist ancestor of the modern encyclopaedia.
Pastrengo combines an encyclopaedic bio-bibliography of pagan
and Christian authors, with a dictionary of inventions and inventors,
followed by sections on geography, topography, and ‘res gestae’. The material
is arranged in alphabetical order in six separate sections. Different from
his predecessors, he is concerned with providing a reliable bibliographical
repertory of known authors and their works and omits much of the legends
and moralising commentary which had occupied earlier compilations. His
De Originibus is edited by Michelangolo Biondo (1500–1565).
The Veronese jurist and humanist Guglielmo Patrengo (c 1290–1362),