Year/Century: 16th century
Language: Latin
Subject: Law & Government
Binding: Softcover, Wraps
Description: Guillaume Postel The Athenian Magistrates are known as De magistratibus Atheniensium liber.Nicolini da Sabbio, Venice, 1541 Paperback, 19th century, size 4 by 5 3/4"; 76 lvs (= 152 pp). Excellent interior with the exception of one pre-praefatio missing leaf, a repaired reinforced title page, and a period ink crossing half of page 4. Written in Italian. Guillaume Postel (1510–1581) was a French writer, linguist, astronomer, diplomat, polyglot, professor, and Christian Kabbalist. Postel traveled to Paris to continue his schooling after leaving his birthplace of the Normandy village of Barenton. He made lifelong friends with several of the men who would go on to join the Society of Jesus during his time as a student at the Collège Sainte-Barbe, including Ignatius of Loyola. He joined the Jesuit novitiate in Rome in March 1544, but he left on December 9, 1545, without taking a vow of chastity.
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