MANTICA (Francisco) - Tractatus de coniecturi ultimarum volu - Lot 160

MANTICA (Francisco) - Tractatus de coniecturi ultimarum voluntarum. Coligny, Chez Pierre de la Rovière, 1611; in-folio, 16 ppnch. + 748 pp. + index, full contemporary vellum binding, 5-rib spine, traces of laces. Fine edition by this early 17th-century Swiss printer based in Coligny, near Lake Geneva. This is a Traité sur la conjecture des volontés ultimes printed on 2 columns. The author is none other than Francesco Mantica, born in 1534 in the Republic of Venice, and died in 1614 in Rome. He was an Italian cardinal of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, starting out as professor of law at the University of Bologna, then Padua, before being called to Rome by Pope Sixtus V.