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BENCI, FRANCESC. Quinque martyres. Rome, ex Typographia Vaticana (colophon: Domenico Basa), 1592
8vo (170 x 115 mm), contemporary limp vellum with later title on spine, a fresh, very good copy (flyleaves renewed, tiny burning at edge of last 3 ff.). Large jesuitic woodcut device on title, pp. 224.
Second edition (first edited the year before, 1591), very rare, of this collection of poems on the Jesuit martyrs in India by F. Benci (1542-1594). The work is dedicated to Cardinal Aquaviva, brother of one of the martyrs, Rodolfo Aquaviva.
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