1602 TREATISE on MARRIAGE Sylva nuptialis FAMILY LAW antique Giovanni Nevizzano

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Title: 1602 TREATISE on MARRIAGE Sylva nuptialis FAMILY LAW antique Giovanni Nevizzano

Description: [Marriage]
Nevizzano (Giovanni)
Sylva nuptialis... in libros sex distributa
by Giovanni Nevizzano
[Lyon], Jean Lertout, 1602
early ink inscription to title and front-endpaper, as well as occasional underlining,
lacking back endpaper.
Original overlapping vellum with manuscript title to the spine
tears to upper joint (still firm) and lower cover top edge, yapp edges, remains of ties, minor toning
This 16th century treatise examines the institution of marriage and its societal implications, including concepts like dowry, paternity, adultery, inheritance, marital law and legal remedies, and also discussions about the Guelphs and Ghibellines, political factions in medieval Italy, and the authority of princes.
Size 4 3/4 by 7 inches
606 pp. plus Index
good condition, toning
Text in Latin.

Giovanni Nevizzano was a 16th- century Italian jurist , born in Asti and died in 1540.
He studied jurisprudence at Padua and Turin , where he later taught. He is the author of the first attempt at a legal bibliography , entitled Index scriptorum in utroque jure ( Lyons , 1522), continued by Gomez, Fichard, Ziletti, and Freymon;
Sylvae nuptialis , a book in which the rational and the extravagant alternate;
Consilia ( Lyons , 1559). Additiones ad Rolandinum . Quasteio de librorum multitudine resecanda . Controversiae feudales , etc.

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1602 TREATISE on MARRIAGE Sylva nuptialis FAMILY LAW antique Giovanni Nevizzano

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