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Calvalca, Domenico (c. 1270-1324) Libro de le Trenta Stultitie se com[m]ettono ne la battaglie spirituale.
Venice: Comino de Lovere, 1528.
Small octavo, title page printed within border of woodcut ornaments; text in single column, roman letter; ex libris Leo S. Olschki, with his bookplate and shelf marks inside front board; bound in later half tan paper with marbled boards; rare at auction; 5 3/4 x 4 in.
This collection of the "Thirty Stupidities" often encountered in spiritual battles, was one of dozens written by the Dominican master of prose, Domenico Cavalca. Writing in Italian, Cavalca also translated important religious texts into vernacular Pisan and Florentine dialects. The title of the present work is normally rendered as Trattato delle Trente Stoltizie. Our author takes the battle metaphor seriously in the text, describing inner spiritual struggles with bellicose metaphors
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