GALLUZZI, Tarquinio. Carminum libri tres.
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description: Poems on Devotion and Natural Disaster GALLUZZI, Tarquinio. Carminum libri tres. Rome: Jacopo Mascardi. 1611. 8vo. Contemporary brown morocco, spine and boards gilt with alternating hatched lozenges and small floral tools, floral cornerpieces, borders gilt aux petits fers, edges gilt; pp. [xvi], 341, [1], [2 (blank)]; title-page engraved with elaborate architectural border, woodcut initials, typographic tailpieces; corners and extremities worn, ties and endcaps perished, small wormhole to lower corner of upper board; uniform light toning, sporadic light foxing (heavier to quire D), quires G, I, and L browned, small wormhole to inner margin of quires A–P; a very good copy; early shelfmark to title. Scarce first edition of the sole collection of neo-Latin verse by the Jesuit professor of rhetoric Tarquinio Galluzzi (1573–1649), a key figure in solidifying the seventeenth-century rhetorical tradition at the Collegio Romano, our copy in a handsome contemporary binding. Born in Montebuono near the Sabine city of Rieti, Galluzzi entered the Roman novitiate of S. Andrea at the age of seventeen and quickly became distinguished as an orator. He taught rhetoric at the Collegio Romano, established by St Ignatius of Loyola in 1551, from 1606 to 1617, and subsequently taught large classes of ethics and moral philosophy until 1620. He spent the last eighteen years of his life as rector of the Pontifical Greek College of St Athanasius and was frequently entrusted with delivering speeches during the visits of illustrious guests, or to celebrate important occasions, most famously his funeral orations for Cardinal Roberto Bellarmino (1621) and Cardinal Arnaud d’Ossat (1604). As professor of oratory at the Collegio Romano, he was tasked with reciting the Oratio Christi Domini morte in the Papal chapel during the Good Friday liturgy before the Pope and the College of Cardinals, an institutional privilege of the Jesuit college first granted by Pope Gregory XIII. The present collection o…
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