Quorum posterior iam primùm in lucem prodit. [Vinheta tipográfica de Plantin]. ANTUERPIAE, Ex oficina Christophori Plantini. CIC. IC. LXVI. [1566].

In 8º (15,5x10 cm) col: 258, [4] pags.

Encadernação tardia inteira de pele com ferros a ouro na lombada, apresentando o corte das folhas carminado.

Exemplar com título de posse da época; obliteração contemporânea por colagem na folha de rosto; e 2 ex-libris (um moderno e outro do inicio do século XX).

Obra com duas epistolas deste grande filósofo da Renascença, escritas depois da sua estadia em Portugal que o mesmo refere no início desta obra.

Nicolau Clenardo (Nicolas Cleynaerts) nasceu na Flandres em 1493 e morreu em Granada em 1542. Licencia-se em Teologia na Universidade de Lovaina (1519). Passa por Paris, seguindo depois (1531) para Salamanca, em Espanha, onde se dedica ao ensino particular e público. Em finais de 1533, André de Resende, a convite de D. João III, trá-lo para Portugal, onde se destaca como professor das letras clássicas. É mestre do infante D. Henrique, arcebispo de Braga, quando este reside ainda na corte em Évora. Quatro anos mais tarde encontra-se a exercer o seu ensino em Braga. O sonho de aprender árabe e de pacificamente converter os Maometanos ao catolicismo levam-no para Granada e, dois anos depois, para o Norte de África (1540). Regressa a Granada em 1542, onde vem a falecer sem ter concretizado o seu sonho. Para o conhecimento da sociedade portuguesa do século XVI, não só no campo cultural mas também nos campos económico e social, as suas cartas, escritas em latim (Epistolarum Libri Duo — publicadas em 1566 e 1606), são fundamentais.

 A good copy of a small great book of the Renaissance period. Considered the best and more perfectly achieved work of Clenardo.

Late binding, but no loss of paper on this 18th Century renewal. Copy with contemporary ownership title, partially erased with a later scrap on the title page; and 2 ex-libris (a modern one, and one of the early 20th Century). Contemporary ink erasures in pages: 12, 56, 57, 58, 163, and 165 without significant loss of text. 

This work contains with 2 letters (epistolary works) or Books reunited after the death of this great philosopher of the Renaissance, and it was written after his stay in Portugal, Spain and Morocco, which he refers since the beginning of the text. The second «Epistola» has its own title page that corresponds to pp. 105/106 of the book. The Emperor Maximilian granted the rights to release the book to the printer Christopher Plantin because (as he says in the Privilegium, or Grant) he was promoting a honest knowledge. His typographical resources were vast in order to print this book: namely, the tradition of printing beautiful books as the Emblemata Sambuci; Greek and Arabic fonts transposing more than a dozen times the passages of the Kohran, and comparing them with the Greek language (e. g. the words chistum verbum dei, alfakius, alcoranum, paradisum, laus deo, etc), and typographical letters of a reduced size and out of clear fonts that still in use nowadays. The problems of the languages are focused in the Book I. In page 82/83 there are references to Erasmus. Then in Book II there is a focus in the revelation of the word of God to Mahammad, and later on the reason of the opposition of Latins and Arabs in which the Ishmaelite play a role (v. pp 224-225).

Nicolau Clenardo (Nicholas Cleynaerts) was born in the Flanders in 1493 and died in Granada, Spain, in 1542. Graduated in Theology at the University of Leuven (1519). Then went to Paris, and later (1531) to Salamanca, Spain, where he was a private and public teacher. In late 1533, André de Resende, at the invitation of the King John III, called him to Portugal, where he was a professor of classical languages. As professor of the prince he resides in court palace in Évora. Four years later he was called to the city of Braga. His dream of learning Arabic and peacefully convert to Catholicism the Muslim took him to Granada and two years later to North Africa (1540). He returns to Granada in 1542, where passes away without having achieved his dream. To the knowledge of society of the 16th century, not only in the cultural field but also in the economic and social fields, their letters, written in Latin (Epistolarum Libri Duo - published in 1566 and 1606), are fundamental.

Voet, L. Plantin Press 996

BM (STC dutch e fle) 54