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Themistius (317-c. 388) ed. Girolamo Donzellini (1513-1587) Orationes Octo Elegantissimae ac Eruditione Varia Refertissimae.
Basel: apud Petrum Pernam, 1559.
First edition with notes and commentary by Donzellini; final two preliminary blanks genuine and present at the end of the preliminary material; bound in full contemporary limp Italian parchment; early shelf numbers in ink to title page; some discoloration to first few signatures, contents good, with some early ink marginalia; binding lacking original alum-tawed ties; 6 5/8 x 4 1/4 in.
"Girolamo Donzellini was born in 1513. He was a religious dissenter, a physician, and a bibliophile involved in the Medical Republic of Letters. He was put to death by the Venetian Inquisition in 1587, after being tried five times in his lifetime." (cf. https://www.routledge.com/The-World-of-Girolamo-Donzellini-A-Network-of-Heterodox-Physicians-in-Sixteenth-Century/Celati/p/book/9781032112046#)
