Sensi (Lodovico)

La historia dell'huomo...Con le Rime del medesimo autore, FIRST EDITION, includes Sensi’s poems, printer’s woodcut device on title, 3 large historiated initials, full page illustration, headpieces, occasional spotting, slightly later vellum, soiled, new endpapers, [BM STC p.622; Brunet, V, 290; Graesse VI, 362; not in Sander, Schueling, or Adams], 4to, Baldo Salviani, Perugia, 1577.

*** First edition of a vast and learned philosophical treatise on the psychology of the human mind, based on the principles of morality and Catholic faith. The first part concerns an extensive discussion of the emotions and senses, while the second and third are devoted mainly to theological matters. The last 56 pages contain the Verses of the Sensi, a jurist, scholar, and poet from Perugia of the 16th century.