[ERESIA] - PASCALE, Giovanni Luigi (traduttore, ca. 1525-1560) - Del Nuovo Testamento di Jesu Christo Nostro Signore. [Geneva]: Giovan Luigi Paschale, 1555.   An interesting bilingual Italian-French version of the New Testament published in Geneva and curated by Pascale which reproduces the Italian translation published in the same year by Jean Crespin. As for the Italian part, Pascale used Brucioli's version as a guide, while for the French one he used the translation of Olivetano (1535) revised by Calvino. A few years after the publication of the work Pascale was arrested during a Protestant mission in Calabria in July 1559 and was then convicted of heresy by the Inquisition and later executed on September 15, 1560 in Rome.   8vo (150 x 99mm). Text within red ink border, woodcut initials (title lightly worn with some small wormholes and tears without text loss, first 250 pages with a tiny wormhole in the center, a few other wormholes). Contemporary brown calf, panelled spine with blindstamp decorations, blindstamped decoration at center of covers within a double fillet border, edges decorated in blind and gilt (lightly worn). No copy is recorded as having been offered at auction in the past 100 years (RBH). Provenance: early inscriptions at beginning and end.

Estimate € 800 - 1,200

Awarded € 800