1565 ANGELICO BUONRICCIO. Important Italian Reformation on Justification - Paul's Epistles with Over 150 Woodcut Devices.

A very finely preserved 1565 first edition of Angelico Buonriccio's quasi-reformation interpretive paraphrase of the Epistles of Saint Paul. Buonriccio's paraphrase first of Matthew, then of the Gospels in General, and then of Paul's Epistles followed in rapid succession immediately after the Council of Trent, in 1563. The Catholic Church was on its heels a bit as a result of the absolute flood of Protestant translations and tractates being distributed throughout Papal lands. One result of the Council was a multi-faceted effort to counteract the Protestant "propaganda," by way of printing Rome-friendly translations and paraphrases of Scripture. And these were then to inform the publication and distribution of tractates and the visual arts as well. And they did. El Greco's famed 'Healing of the Blind Man' is noted as having been directly impacted by Buonriccio's spiritualized paraphrase of the account in Matthew.  Interestingly, Buonriccio didn't quite play ball though. He was a sort of