Epistolarum Theologicarum. Liber unus

New edition, reproducing that originally published by the same publisher in 1573.
84 letters, text on 36 lines.
Contemporary full vellum binding with overlapping edges. Smooth spine. Lower compartment clumsily restored, as well as an angular lack to the lower corner of the second board. Light worming to the first endpaper and the first three leaves not touching the text. A pale dampstain to the lower margin of half the volume. Manuscript annotation on title page "ExLB MMagdal Rochesse 1713".
Theodore de Bèze alone embodies and personifies Christian humanism; above all a churchman, he was the undisputed leader of Protestantism from 1575 and directed the Church of Geneva for fifty years after Calvin. He was also a Latinist and Hellenist, playwright, poet and artist, statesman and diplomat in the service of the cause of the Reformation as his correspondence amply testifies. Through his immense correspondence, which surpasses in scope the already prodigious ones of Heinrich Bullinger and Calvin, he organized and encouraged the defense of the reformed faith throughout the European continent. This edition brings together the letters of Bèze as theologian and polemicist, concerned with political reflection.