‎LAGOMARSINI, HIERONYMUS & JOSEPHUS IGNATIUS CHIABERGE. ‎
‎Hieronymi Lagomarsini e Societate Jesu Orationes, publice dictae Florentiae ab ipso auctore studiorum ibidem Praefecto. (And:) Orationes P. Josephi Ignatii Chiaberge, Societatis Jesu, addito Trivolsiensium litteratorum judicio. (Editio novissima) ‎

‎Augsburg, Innsbruck, (Augustae Vindelicorum & Oeniponti), Sumptibus Josephi Wolff, 1763. ‎

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‎4to. 2 parts in 1: 255 p. Calf 21 cm (Ref: Not yet in VD18; cf. VD18 14485788 for the 1752 edition of the first part; Backer Sommervogel 4,1367 & 2,1120) (Details: Binding elaborately and richly blind stamped with floral ornaments, oriental style. All edges gilt. Part 1: Lagomarsini (p. 1-128), part 2: Chiaberge (p. 129-255). The parts with the orations of Chiaberge opens with a half title) (Condition: Binding worn at the extremities, especially at the foot of the spine. A few small hardly visible wormholes in the foot of the spine, not affecting the bookblock. Both free endpapers gone. Lightly foxed) (Note: This collection of orations of two famous Italian orators, delivered on solemn occasions in Italian and papal history, is a reissue of 2 works the were previously published separately by Joseph Wolff in 1752. It contains, Lagomarsini: 'Oratio in adventu Francisci III ... ad Florentinos (1739). Oratio coram Fabritio Serbellonio Romani Pontificis ad Magnum Etruriae ducem legato (1734). Pro grammaticis Italiae scholis (1735). Oratio pro lingua latina (1736). Pro scholis publicis oratio I & II' (1737 & 1738). Chiaberge: 'Clementi XI. Pontifici Maximo Oratio panegyrica (1703). Innocentii XII. Pontificis Maximi providentia, Oratio funebris (1700). Gregorius XIII. Pontifex Maximus saeculorum felicitas, Oratio funebris (1700). Ludovici XIV regis christiani Oratio funebris (1716). Mariae Joannae Baptistae ducissae Sabaudiae, Pedemontium principis, Cypri Reginae etc. Oratio funebris' (1724). The Italian Jesuit Girolamo (Hieronymus) Lagomarsini, 1698-1773, is among classicist especially known for his contribrution to the constitution of the text of De Oratore of Cicero. He devoted himself to the accumulation of critical material for a new and complete edition of Cicero. 'Al progetto, destinato a naufragare', because he collected far more than he could chew. The Jesuit College at Rome still holds his notes on more than 700 manuscripts, some of which are now lost. The discovery of his collations by Ellendt was at the time a most valuable contribution to the improvement of the text. ('De Oratore Libri Tres. With introduction and notes by A.S. WILKINS', Hildesheim, 1965, p. 67) From 1733 till 1744 he taught in Florence, and from 1751 he was professor of Greek in Roma at the papal 'Universitas Gregoriana'. (See for Lagomarsini 'Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani' - Volume 63 (2004). Giuseppe Ignazio (Josephus Ignatius) Chiaberge, 1670-1748, was in his time also a famous Jesuit orator. His orations are preceded by a 'judicium' (judgment) on him and his work by the 'litteratores Trivolsienses', published 'mense Julio 1725, p. 1325, articulo LXIII'. This is a reference to the 'Journal de Trévoux', formally the 'Mémoires pour l'Histoire des Sciences & des beaux-Arts', but often called the 'Mémoires de Trévoux', an influential academic journal that appeared monthly in France between January 1701 and December 1782. The journal published critical reviews of contemporary books and papers. Most of the authors were Jesuits. (Source Wikipedia: 'Journal de Trévoux') No wonder the orations of Chiaberge are recommended in the 'judicium'. His 'ars mira' is praised, and his 'concinnitas', and his 'iisdem mutuo nectendis, evolvendisque solertia'. 'Subtilis est, & splendidus Orationis ornatus. (...) Stylus sententiarum ponderi par, integer, robustus, varius, ad proborum exemplarium normam efformatus'. (p. 137)) (Collation: A-2I4) (Photographs on request) ‎