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Venice, Giunta, 1587. In 4°. Printer's mark on the title page and last leaf, with numerous woodcuts by Pirro Ligorio based on drawings by Cristoforo Coriolani, some glosses in an older hand in the text, detached fascicle D5-6 (pp. 55-56), small restorations to the corners of the first leaves, rare browning, some slight traces of humidity, posthumous parchment binding. Ownership signature of Tommaso Codronchi of Imola, son of the physician Giovan Battista Codronchi (Imola 1547-1628).
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De arte gymnastica, written in 1569 by the Forlì physician Girolamo Mercuriale, was the text that marked the birth of sports medicine, reevaluating the role of this discipline in the medical and therapeutic fields. The work appeared in its first edition in Venice in 1569, with a dedication to Cardinal Alessandro Farnese. A subsequent reprint was published between 1569 and 1573, expanded and revised, with a dedication to Emperor Maximilian II. These were followed by a Paris edition (1577) and two Venice editions (1587 and 1601), published during the author's lifetime. Only after Mercuriale's death did two reprints come to light, dated 1644 and 1672 respectively, the latter of which was interpolated.
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