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Merenda, Giovanni Pietro

Evacuandi Ratio, 1547

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Basel, Michael Isingrinius, 1547. In 8th. Illustrated title page (facsimile), inhabited xylographic drop caps, coeval loose parchment binding. Medical notes of contemporary hands on some papers and in the last sheet of guard.

Specialist Notes

Rare medical edition by Pietro Giovanni Merenda from Brescia, personal doctor of Ferdinand I of Hamburg, living testimony of the presence of doctors from Brescia at the court of the Habsburgs in the 16th century.
Resident of Innsbruck and doctor apud Ferdinandi Romanorumregis filias , Pietro (oGiampietro) by Francesco Marenda (Merenda), had obtained the gratiae in artibuset medicine at the Studio of Padua on February 6, 1532, and then passed a full marks l 'examen for doctorate in arts and medicine on 22 February 1532. & nbsp; Marenda dedicated to Ferdinand i of Habsburg, with a letter of dedication from Innsbruck on 28 June 1544, this work, treated in three books printed in Basel in 1547. In the dedication to Ferdinand, Marenda informs that he took up service in 1537 ( ante annos septem ) as a doctor for his children ( medicam artem in curiaserenissimorum maiestatis tuae liberorum exercui : f. A4v) and to be he was chosen by the sovereign himself as one of his lost doctors nali. & nbsp; The work is introduced by a notable commendation letter addressed by the Augsburg doctor Geryon Saylerus to Marenda on Augsburg, February 25, 1545, in which Saylerus informed him that Marenda's work had been reported to him by his colleague Andrea Gallo, a doctor in the service of Ferdinand of Habsburg: it was it was Gallus who insisted that Saylerus persuade Marenda to publish his treatise.

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