Venice: Gioliti, 1586. First Edition. Hardcover (Vellum). The first edition in Italian of this biography of Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Jesuits (d. 1556, beatified 1609). Full contemporary vellum, worn, discolored, splitting at the spine ends, title worn and browned, dampstain to last section, a few small wormtrails, scattered foxing..... More