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Florence, for Filippo Giunti, 1595. In 8°. Full parchment binding. Title on the spine. Printer's device on the title page. The author's name precedes the title. On the title page, incorrect date in Roman numerals (MDCXV). Woodcut initials. Slight signs of aging.
Specialist Notes
Important first Italian edition of this famous treatise on astrological medicine and pharmacology, prefaced by the author's life by Francesco Serdonati. Galeotto Marzio (Narni, 1427 - Bohemia, 1490) from the noble Marzi family, after studying in Ferrara was called at only 23 years of age to teach literature at the University of Padua and, later, at the University of Bologna. He was in constant contact with Janus Pannonius and János Vitéz, who invited him to Hungary on several occasions. For his heterodox doctrines he was accused of heresy (and magic, by the grammarian Giorgio Merula), but he died at peace with the ecclesiastical institutions and, if we are to believe the translator himself in the aforementioned short biography, "for excessive fatness".
Bibliography: Krivatsy 752. Gamba, 1286. Magic Library, 824.
Bibliography: Krivatsy 752. Gamba, 1286. Magic Library, 824.
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