Jacopo Filippo di Bergamo (1434 - 1520) — Auction price
Lot 231 De claris mulieribus
Jacopo Filippo di Bergamo (1434 - 1520) 
Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts including Americana 
Jacopo Filippo di Bergamo
06.01.1434 - 16.06.1520
Jacopo Filippo di Bergamo, or Giacomo Filippo Forèsti (Latin: Iacobus Philippus Bergomensis) was an Italian Augustinian monk, theologian and chronicler.
Jacopo di Bergamo was born into a noble family, received his ecclesiastical education at the local monastery, and early showed a penchant for literary work. After traveling in Europe, he took the tonsure and was abbot of monasteries, engaged in their improvement.
He is known as the author of a number of significant early printed works, a chronicler and biblical scholar. His Supplementum chronicarum (1483) is a universal chronicle that survived many subsequent editions. And De claris mulieribus, published in 1497, contains the first account of the voyage of the discoverer Columbus.
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Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts including Americana
Date: 19.10.2023 10:00 UTC -05:00
Number of lots in the catalog: 357