1567 DIVINE INSTITUTES by LACTANIUS antique in LATIN 16th CENTURY vellum binding

Lactantius Lucius Caecilius Firmianus, Divinaru Institutionu Lib. VII. Lyon, J. de Tournes; 1567Size 3 1/4 by 5"Title page with typographical frame, small wormtrack at the first few leavesFull vellum  binding, blue edgesTitle label at the spineText in Latin=============================Lucius Caecilius Firmianus, signo Lactantius (c. 250 – c. 325), was an early Christian author who became an advisor to Roman emperor Constantine I, guiding his Christian religious policy in its initial stages of emergence, and a tutor to his son Crispus. His most important work is the Institutiones Divinae ("The Divine Institutes"), an apologetic treatise intended to establish the reasonableness and truth of Christianity to pagan critics.He is best known for his apologetic works, widely read during the Renaissance by humanists, who called Lactantius the "Christian Cicero". Also often attributed to Lactantius is the poem The Phoenix, which is based on the myth of the phoenix from Egypt and Arabia.Though th