Pimpinella, Vincenzo. An oration or speech before... Lot 288

Pimpinella, Vincenzo. An oration or speech before Roe. Imperial May. Carolo V. Augusto etc. King / Elector Princes and Stende of the Holy Roman Empire / at the beginning of the present Imperial Diet / delivered in Latin by the Most Reverend Sir Vincentz Pimpinello Archbishop of Rossan etc. in the most diligent manner. Augsburg. 1530. (On the last leaf:) Nuremberg, Georg Wachter, [1530]. Cl.-4°. 11 unnum. With beautiful woodcut title border. Modern paperback binding. VD16 P-2782, not published by Adams. Reprint of the first German edition published by Weissenhorn in Augsburg; the original Latin edition was also published by Weissenhorn in 1530. Vincenzo Pimpinella (14885-1534), Archbishop of Rossano in Calabria from 1525, was a staunch opponent of the Reformation. From 1529, he was the first papal nuncio at the Viennese court (1529-1532). Pimpinella delivered his speech to Emperor Charles V and King Ferdinand of Hungary and Bohemia at the Diet of Augsburg on June 21, 1530, in which Pimpinella discusses the Turkish invasion of Hungary. Compared to the original Latin edition, without the poems of praise and the Panegyricus on Pimpinella. Some dampstaining throughout. Long contemporary handwritten entry in German on the last white leaf.