Joachim Fiore Interpretatio Prophetam 1525

Joachim, Abbot of Fiore. Interpretatio preclara in Hieremiam Prophetam,double column, woodcut illustrations and initials, lacking A1 (title), some light browning, some minor staining and soiling, mostly marginal, old wooden boards, rebacked in attractive blind-stamped antique style calf, remains of metal clasps, boards rubbed and stained, a very good copy, [Adams J212; Caillet 5440], 4to, [Venice], [Bernardinus Benalius], [1525].

***Joachim of Fiore, c.1135-1202, mystic, theologian and an esoterist. A group of followers know as Joachimites arose from his writings. Many of these believed that there was an Antichrist already in the world in the form of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor. A great number of Joachim's theories were confuted by Thomas Aquinas in his Summa Theologica. Nevertheless, the Abbot was put in Paradise by Dante in his Divine Comedy..