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Polti, Antonino (fl. circa 1575) Della Felicita Suprema del Cielo.
Perugia: Giovan Bernadino Rastelli, 1575.
Quarto, printer's woodcut device to title page, monasterial ink inscription to foot of title; illustrated with five large woodcuts emphasizing the importance of the Virgin Mary; bound in full contemporary limp parchment, somewhat cockled; contemporary manuscript verses to ffep; 7 3/4 x 6 in.
"For Polti, Mary represented the divine center of heaven. The Dominican friar invoked the biblical sentence, 'to see your face is like seeing the countenance of God,' spoken by Jacob to his brother Esau, to explain what the blessed feel when seeing her. [...] As the Queen of Heaven, Mary presided over all the other saints." (cf. Colleen McDannell & Bernhard Lang's Heaven: A History, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001, pages 158-160.)
Worldcat lists three copies in libraries worldwide.
