Apr 23, 2009 - Sale 2177

Sale 2177 - Lot 63

Price Realized: $ 720
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(CLERGYMAN.) FARNESE, ALESSANDRO; CARDINAL. Letter Signed, to a colleague in Rome, in Italian, asking him to persuade the Pope to take action to end a heretical movement in Vicenza. 1 page, tall 4to; worn at edges with no loss of text. Np, 9 April 1547

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Farnese (1520-1589) was Papal Legate to Charles V and was responsible for building the Church of the Gesù in Rome.