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Carlo Borromeo, Santo - Giussano, Giovanni Pietro
De vita et rebus gestis sancti Caroli Borromei S.R.E., 1751
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Milan, Printing house of the Ambrosiana Library, 1751. In 4°. Frontispiece with a beautiful portrait of St. Charles finely engraved in copper by G. B. Sassi, title in red and black print with engraved vignette, some initials in copper, others in woodcut, copy in beards, coeval hardcover binding.
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In 1610 Giussano published, in synchrony with the canonization, the Vita di s. Charles Borromeo (Rome); the autograph is in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana (F.185 inf.). The work had a considerable fortune, but was immediately the target of very harsh criticism. Despite this, it was reprinted and re-proposed several times: in Brescia in 1612 "again by the same author revista et purgata of some errors that are in the Roman edition"; in 1618 it was translated into German by Ippolito Guarinoni; it was then released in Rome in 1679, edited by Pietro Martire Merizola; in Milan, in 1751, in the Latin translation by Bartolomeo De Rossi and with annotations by Baldassarre Oltrocchi, both oblates of St. Charles (the present edition); in Monza in 1856 and finally, in the English version, in London in 1884.
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