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Severino, Marco Aurelio
The Complaint of the Shortened Scherzo of Marcus Aurelius Severinus , 1644
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Naples, Camillo Cavallo, 1644. In 4°. Device on the title page of a knotted serpent, another allegorical engraving on the verso, marginal restorations on the first leaf, sporadic foxing but overall an excellent copy , modern brown cardboard binding with title on the spine. Refined ex libris on the verso of the flyleaf: within a double frame depiction of a sphinx and a compass within a two-tone black and white quadripartite field, in the lower and upper margins of the double frame is inserted the ownership legend: EX LIBRIS | EUROPE CACCIARI, in the left and right lateral margins is inserted the motto: IN DOCTRIN | IS OBLECTA | TIO IN LUD | IS STUDIUM, in a two-tone black and white quadripartite field are depicted the chess pieces. Another modern collection stamp: Ex Libris GLLapia n.59.
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Marco Aurelio Severino (Tarsia, 2 November 1580 – Naples, 12 July 1656) was a lecturer in Anatomy and Surgery at the University of Naples from 1622 to 1645, as well as a practicing surgeon at the Incurabili Hospital in Naples. Theoretician and direct practitioner of an active surgery called by himself 'of crude medicar', he was a skilled anatomist and published the Zootomia democritea, the first work of comparative anatomy.
To Dal Pozzo, demonstrating an uninterrupted profession as a man of letters, Severino dedicated in 1644, in the guise of an "idle academic, known as l'Assettato", the present divertissement entitled, an exercise which is anything but episodic given his assiduous frequentation with poets and men of letters of his time.
To Dal Pozzo, demonstrating an uninterrupted profession as a man of letters, Severino dedicated in 1644, in the guise of an "idle academic, known as l'Assettato", the present divertissement entitled, an exercise which is anything but episodic given his assiduous frequentation with poets and men of letters of his time.
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