Christophorus Marcellus - In quarta Lateraneñ. Concilii ...Oratio - Rare postincunable - 1512

(Theology; Rariora; First editions) CRISTOFORO MARCELLO (1480 C.-1527)
Christophori Marcelli Proto. Apost. In quarta Lateraneñ. Concilii Sessione Habita Oratio. iiii. Idus Decembris.M.D.XII. ( Impressum Romae, per Iacobum Mazochium, 1513) (Colophon)
§ 4to (145 x 210 cm.); [10] leaves, signature: A1-4, B1-6. Title within decorative woodcut frame. Later wrappers. Title page slightly short-cut. Fine copy.
First edition. Marcello was an Italian Catholic theologian, canon of Padua, between 1507 and 1508 he was appointed apostolic prothonotary by Julius II (1503-1513) and from 1514 archbishop of Corfù (Greece). In May 1527, during the sack of Rome, Marcello was taken prisoner and, failing to pay the sum required for his release, he died in the same year in prison, in Gaeta. Marcello wrote numerous works of philosophical as well as of theological interests. “In 1512 he participated in the Fifth Lateran Council, pronouncing in the fourth session of December 10 the oration “De officio principis”, an eulogy of the merits, including military ones, of Julius II (Rome, G. Mazzocchi, 1513).” (Palumbo). During this session, the conciliar lawyers presented the problem of the abolition of the Pragmatic sanction of Bourges (7 July 1438), an ordinance with which Charles VII (1422-1461) had declared himself the sole custodian of the rights of the Church of France, effectively ousting the pope, and that in 1461 his successor Louis XI (1461-1483) had agreed with Pope Pius II (14558-1464) to revoke (a promise that failed when the pope did not give his support to the sovereign as regards the reconquest of Naples). Following the fourth session, the council began negotiations with Francis I (1515-1547), which concluded with the concordat of Bologna (August 18, 1526), according to which France accepted the pope as universal custodian of spiritual power, but giving at the same time the sovereigns of France a power over the church which no other European sovereign would ever obtaine, since the pope's work as guardian of the French Church was to be based on a relationship of co-management between the pope and the king.
 Margherita Palumbo Marcello, Cristoforo In: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani; http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bmarcellc.html; Adams M526