Francisco de Santo Agostinho Macedo (1596-1681)

ELOGIA POETICA

1680
...in Serenissimam Rempublicam Venetam Ejusque Augustum Senatum tribunalia, pontifices, duces, sive Principes a Primo Paulutio Anafesto Usque ad praesentem Aloysium Contarenum, Serenissimum, & felicissimum Principem, Composita a Patre Fratre Francisco a Sancto Augustino Macedo Ord. Min. Observantiae, Lusitano, Magistro Conimbricensi, Lectore Publico Patavino, Veneto Cive. Nuncupata Eidem Serenissimae Reipublicae. PATAVII, MDCLXXX. Apud Cadorinum, Sup. Permissu. Book format 4°, 31,2x21 cm. [8 l.], 142 numbered sheets, resp. p., [3 l.; 1 l.], in Latin. Title page printed in black, with woodcut "Inferiora dirigo". Copperplate illustrations: frontispiece, portraits and epigrams of popes, dukes, and princes - from the first, Paulutius Anafestus, to the then-reigning Aloysius Contareno; woodcut initials, headers, decorative lines, and vignettes. Published by Giacomo Cadorino in Padua in 1680. Bound in firm vellum, spine with a label featuring gold letters. The book, including the binding, is in very good condition, with slightly worn edges on the covers, one sheet loosened from the binding, otherwise only minor signs of use.