Albertus Patavinus - In evangelia- nice postincunable -contemporary binding - 1529

ALBERTO DA PADOVA (1269 c.-1323 o 1328)
Alberti Patavini eremitae Augustiniani doctoris Parisiensis praeconis celeberrimi in Evangelia Sanctorum aliquot utillimae conciones. Taurini, in aedibus Antonii Ranoti, 1529.
§ 4to (250x154); [22], CCCL (recte 358), [2] leaves. Title page printed in red and black, within woodcut architectonical frame with a small portrait of the author in the upper part. Woodcut initials. Beautiful comptemporary brown calf, richly blind-tooled. Ancient ownership signatures. Unimportant marginal stains at some leaves, occasional light browning. Very good copy.
Sixteenth-century Turin edition (probably the fifth ever) of this work of sacred eloquence by the Augustinian Alberto da Padova, very rare like all the volumes printed by Ranoto. The border of the frontispiece is the same one already used by Porro in 1527 for the “Praeconum omnia in Evangelia” by the same author. The preliminary epistle to the reader is from the Turin Augustinian Augusto Maria Peracchino (or Peracchini); some Latin poetic compositions by the Augustinian Goffredo Montanari and Fra' Pellegrino da Moncalieri are included. In the numerous marginal glosses there are often quotes from Erasmus, who is defined in Perachino's preface “Cicero Batavus”.
Uncertain is the date of death of Alberto da Padova; it is generally assumed, but not proved, tha he was a pupil of Egidio Romano in Paris. An acclaimed preacher in Bologna and Paris, Alberto was appointed apostolic preacher in recognition of his fame by Pope Boniface VIII; he left several works of sacred eloquence and biblical exegesis. The city of Padua erected a monument to Alberto da Padova, where he is celebrated as “studiorum columna ac summus republicae christiano splendor”. Antonio Ranoto, active between 1516 and 1531, was first (1516-18) in partnership with Nicola Benedetti, then (1519-20) with Eustache Herbert, subsequently continuing his activity independently.
 AGOSTINO M. GIACOMINI Alberto da Padova In: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani; BERSANO BEGEY, I, p. 36, n. 98; SANDER, 197; Catalogue des livres composant la bibliothèque de feu M. le Comte Jacques Manzoni, I, p. 99; EDIT, A-771. About Ranoto: ASCARELLI La tipografia cinquecentina italiana p. 102.