GIOVANNI PIETRO MAFFEI - 1533-1603 Opera Omnia Latine MAFFEI, Pe. Giovanni Pietro, S.J.- [...] Opera Omnia Latine Scripta Nunc primum in unum Corpus collecta, variisque illustrationibus exornata. Accedit Maffeji vita Petro Antonio Serassio auctore, Quid præterea in hac omnium accuratissima editione præstimum, aut additum sit, indicat Epistola ad Lectorem.- Bergomi: Excudebat Petrus Lancellotus, MDCCXLVII (1747).- 2 vols.: 1 portrait; 26cm. together with: -----.- [...] Historiarum ab excessu Gregorii XIII. Libri Tres Sixti Quinti pontificatum complexi. Ex interioribus Romanis Tabulariis depromti nunc primum prodeunt.- Bergomi: Excudebat Petrus Lancellotus, MDCCXLVII (1747).- [16], 64 p.; 26 cm.- E. Giovanni Pietro Maffei (1533-1603), Jesuit historian, a native of Bergamo, was, for two centuries, the main biographer of Saint Ignatius of Loyola; At the invitation of Cardinal-King D. Henrique of Portugal, lived in Portugal, between 1579 and 1584, with the purpose of writing a history of the Portuguese missions in America, India and Japan; The work would be published in Florence with the title Historiarum Indicarum Libri XVI (1588), having achieved great success, with numerous editions and translations in several languages. First Latin edition of his complete works, added with a biography of Maffei, authored by Pe. Petro Antonio Serassio, S.J. The colation of the two tomes is as follows: I-[8], XLVIII, 458, [2] p.: 1 portrait; II-[8], 515, [1 Br.] P. At the end of the tome II, another bound text of the same author(as described above: [16], 64 p.; 26 cm). Stamps of the Quinta das Lágrimas on both pages of the title page and on pages 17 of each of the tomes. First volume with several stamps on the front cover. Moreover, a copy not cropped, very clean and partially unopened, preserving the rare portrait of the author (with the subscription: Iacobus Locato delin.-F. Zucchi Sculp.) that is missing in most of the copies. Full cardboard binding of the time with minor imperfections on the spine. Sommervogel, V, p. 301.