Ribadeneira Pedro de (1527-1611) Vita del P. Ignatio Loiola.

Ribadeneira, Pedro de (1527-1611) Vita del P. Ignatio Loiola. Venice: Giolito, 1586. First Italian edition, with elaborate woodcut title compartment, portrait of Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556), and printer's device on colophon, head and tail pieces and initials, bound in parchment, worming to several signatures in the interior with loss of text, water stains, first signature sprung and detached, title page with short tear, text spotted, 8 1/4 x 6 1/2 in. This biography of the founder of the Jesuit order was composed by a Spanish member of the order who was admitted at the age of thirteen by Ignatius himself.