Giovanni Francesco Ripa - Io.Francisci Ripae a Sancto Nazario Papiensis, In primum [-secun.] Decretalium librum commentaria.. - 1575

Io. Francisci Ripae from Saint Nazarius Pavia's Responsa, in five books of decretals, in the old folios, Infortiatum, ff. No. & Cod. Vnà, with twenty other very useful responsa added.
Three parts, each with a two-color frontispiece, Florentine lily and initials L.A. in a figurative frame, and their own numbering, in a folio volume, approximately 40 x 27 cm, pages 34 + 67 + 120, seventeenth-century blind-stamped binding with a leather spine and corners, handmade paper boards, red edges, Latin text in two columns, drop caps, register at the colophon of the second and third parts.
Good condition specimen, abrasions on the plates and the back of the cover, interior in excellent preservation state, fresh, solid, and well bound, with only slight humidity stains at the margins of the first pages and small woodworm galleries on a few pages outside the printing area; on five pages, slight widespread reddening, probably missing white paper between the second and third part (see photo).
It contains the famous treatise on the plague, 'Iuridicus de Peste Tractatus,' the first legal treatise on public hygiene and prevention. According to the author, explaining the causes of the plague is a physical matter; instead, he intends to address the legislative aspect of contagion management, focusing on remedies related to public health, particularly concerning public and private aqueducts and sewers.
The jurist Giovanni Francesco Ripa, successor of Giasone del Maino and student of Alessandro Tartagni, in the Lombard study of Pavia, later held the chair of canon law in Avignon. He died in Pavia in 1534.