By Bartolomeo Platina; William Benham
London   Griffith Farran and Co. Limited
7.5" by 5" [5], vi-xxiii, 288; [5], vi-xvi, 296pp
A very nice English edition of Bartolomeo Platina's detailed history on the lives of Popes throughout history.
By Bartolomeo Platina; William Benham

1888 The Lives of the Popes From the Time of Our Saviour Jesus Christ to the Accession of Gregory VII The Lives of the Popes From the Accession of Gregory VII to the Death of Paul II

London   Griffith Farran and Co. Limited
7.5" by 5" [5], vi-xxiii, 288; [5], vi-xvi, 296pp
A very nice English edition of Bartolomeo Platina's detailed history on the lives of Popes throughout history.
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Original Binding

Complete in two volumes.

Translated into English.

An extensive work, containing short biographies on the lives of the Popes from Jesus Christ to Paul II.

The short biographies detail the lives and work of the illustrious Popes throughout history, up until the fifteenth century.

Originally written in Latin by Bartolomeo Platina. Platina was an Italian Renaissance humanist author, 

Edited by William Benham, an English churchman and academic. 

Undated, dated from Jisc from a copy held at the University of Oxford Libraries.

Condition

In the original cloth binding. Externally, smart. A little bumping to the head and tail of the spines and to the extremities. A few minor marks to the boards. Internally, firmly bound, though with one crack to the binding of Volume I. Pages are bright and clean.

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