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ROME -- Privilegia auctoritates, facultates, indulgentiaeque Fabricae Basilicae Principis Apostolorum Sancti Petri de Urbe . Rome: 1559. 4 (192 x 126mm). Title woodcut depicting Christ and St. Peter. (Lower margin of title clipped, short tear to title and one other leaf, some light spotting and dampstaining, one blank corner torn, early underlinings.) [ Bound with :] Five other papal bulls on the same subject, all printed by the heirs of Blado in 1570, including: Bulla S.D.M. Pii Papae V. Revisionis et Recuperations bonorum Ecclesiasticorum male Alienatorum . - Quod duae Sententia in ea parte in qua erunt conformes faciant rem iudicatam . - Applicationis fabricae medietatis relictorum piorum non exactorum per triennium . [ And :] Horatius Lutius Calliensis. Tractatus de privilegiis scholarium . Padua: 1564. (Title defective.) Later vellum, two maroon leather lettering-pieces on flat spine (backstrip defective at head). A collection of works concerning the building of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. Michaelangelo was summoned by Pope Paul III in 1546 to give fresh impetus to its rebuilding, and his work was confirmed by Paul's successors until Michelangelo's death in 1564. His work was continued by Vignola, Pirro Ligorio and finally Giacomo della Porta and Carlo Fontana who completed the dome in 1590.