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Ficino, Marsilio

Against the Plague, 1576

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Information

Florence, Giunti, 1576. In 8°. Florentine lily on the title page, decorated initial, marginal foxing, contemporary loose parchment binding.

Specialist Notes

Famous writing by Ficino in which he investigates the causes and remedies against the plague, a «poisonous vapour created in the air, enemy of the vital spirit», among whose causes the italorum medicorum optimus - as Paracelsus defined it - includes first and foremost astral influence: the epidemic would originate from the malignant conjunction of Mars and Saturn and the pestilence «mostly offends men, and places whose ascendants are unfortunate because of the said constellations».

Durling 1535 «The epistle of Manardi [...] and the "brief advice" of Rainaldi [...] were translated from the Latin by Niccolà Lorenzinio, whose preface (p. 97/98) is dated Florence, 29 October 1576»; Choix VII, 8687; Graesse II, 576: «Première reimpression de l'éd. of 1481"; Haym 183; Wellcome 2265.

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