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Written in prison to save his life

MAGGI, Girolimo (or: Hieronymus MAGIUS).
De tintinnabulis liber posthumus. Franciscus Sweertius F. notis illustravit. Accedit ejusdem Magii de equuleo liber, cum notis G. Jungermanni.

Title printed in red and black. With frontispiece of a woman ringing a bell, engraved for Wetstein and dated 1689, 2 folding engravings outside the text and 9 full-page engravings in the text in the first part, 1 folding and 2 full-page engravings ouside the text and 7 full-page engravings in the text, one of which (p. 381) is pasted over the same engraving which originally was printed upside down.

Title printed in red and black. With frontispiece of a woman ringing a bell, engraved for Wetstein and dated 1689, 2 folding engravings outside the text and 9 full-page engravings in the text in the first part, 1 folding and 2 full-page engravings ouside the text and 7 full-page engravings in the text, one of which (p. 381) is pasted over the same engraving which originally was printed upside down.

Title printed in red and black. With frontispiece of a woman ringing a bell, engraved for Wetstein and dated 1689, 2 folding engravings outside the text and 9 full-page engravings in the text in the first part, 1 folding and 2 full-page engravings ouside the text and 7 full-page engravings in the text, one of which (p. 381) is pasted over the same engraving which originally was printed upside down.

Title printed in red and black. With frontispiece of a woman ringing a bell, engraved for Wetstein and dated 1689, 2 folding engravings outside the text and 9 full-page engravings in the text in the first part, 1 folding and 2 full-page engravings ouside the text and 7 full-page engravings in the text, one of which (p. 381) is pasted over the same engraving which originally was printed upside down.

Title printed in red and black. With frontispiece of a woman ringing a bell, engraved for Wetstein and dated 1689, 2 folding engravings outside the text and 9 full-page engravings in the text in the first part, 1 folding and 2 full-page engravings ouside the text and 7 full-page engravings in the text, one of which (p. 381) is pasted over the same engraving which originally was printed upside down.



Amsterdam, Henr. Wetstein, 1689. 12mo. 19th-century half green crushed morocco, spine lettered in gold, marbled endpapers. Title printed in red and black. With frontispiece of a woman ringing a bell, engraved for Wetstein and dated 1689, 2 folding engravings outside the text and 9 full-page engravings in the text in the first part, 1 folding and 2 full-page engravings ouside the text and 7 full-page engravings in the text, one of which (p. 381) is pasted over the same engraving which originally was printed upside down. (24), 150, (48), 201-396, (14) pp.

Second enlarged edition of these two treatises by Girolamo Maggi, with the notes and commentary of Franciscus Sweertius (1527-1629) to the first and those of Godefroid Jungermann to the second text. The first enlarged edition was printed by Andreas Frisius in Amsterdam in 1664.
Girolimo Maggi (d. 1572) was a military engeneer in the service of the Republic of Venice. He worked on the defences of Famagouste (Cyprus), but when the Venetians had to surrender the fortress to the Turcs in 1571, Maggi was taken captive and imprisoned in Constantinople. It was in prison that he wrote these two most interesting treatises: one on bells and carillons, followed by a, considering the circumstances, very appropriate one on 'the horse' and other instruments of torture, illustrated in a horrible and heir-raising way. He dedicated  the first treatise to Charles Ramire, ambassador of the Emperor Maximilian and the second to François de Noailles, bishop of Aire and ambassador of the French King, in the hope to get help from them. But it was all in vain: the next year he was put to death by the Turcs.
The two treatises - the only known to exist, written by Maggi - were not printed before 1608 (Frankfurt & Hannover, Wechel), and 1609 (Hannover) respectively.

Ad 1: After the title follow the dedication by Henricus Wetstein to Ezechiel Spanheim, dated 1689; the preface by Andreas Frisius of 1664, some laudatory judgments and the original dedication by Maggi to Carolus Rym (Charles Ramire) from Gendt. The text by Maggi is on p. 1-108, followed by the 'Notae' of Franciscus Sweertius on p.109-150 and the indexes (26 pp).
Ad 2: Title, laudatory jugment cited from the book De rerum Italicarum scriptores by Raphael Trichetus du Fresne (9 pp.), letter by Thomas Seghetus to Godefroid Jungermann, dated Cologne, 6 March 1608 (4 pp.), and the preface and dedication by Maggi the the ambassador of the French King (7 pp.), followed by Maggi's text (p. 201-39), a letter (p. 240-2), Thomas Seghetus preface to the reader (p. 243-244), the 'Notae by Gothofr. Jungermann (p. 249-311), and the Appendix De eculei tormento ex (Carolus) Sigonii, (Antonii) Gallonii & (Fr.) Jureti scriptis (p. 313-396). The index concludes the work (14 pp.).

Good copy.- (Frontispiece somewhat soiled).
RISM B, VI, 2, p. 525; Biogr. Nat. Belg. XXIV, col. 364; Nouv. Biogr. Univ., 32, cols. 698-9.

Related Subjects: Music  Torture 

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