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SAVONAROLE (Giovanni Michel) and Bartolomeo BOLDO. Libro della Natura et Virtu dell e Cose, che nutriscono, & dell e Cose non naturali , con alc une Osservationi per conservar la Sanita. Venezia, Domenico & G.B.Guerra, 1576. In-4, ivory vellum (pastiche binding). 8 lim. pages, 299 pp. (The 4th lim. page is erroneously bound after the title). In 1508, Savonarola published his famous treatise on dietetics, which enjoyed lasting success. This latest Venetian edition, edited and completed by the Brescian physician Bartolomeo Boldo, illustrates the nature and properties of foods in twenty-six chapters, with references to Galen and Avicenna and observations on the dietary practices prevalent in Padua and Ferrara. One poorly bound folio (4th folio lim.), wetness, worm work on ff. 39 to 55, a few words underlined in pink pencil, ex-libris stamp at foot of title. Old handwritten bookplate on last flyleaf. Vicaire 770-771.
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