La Sifilide poema di Girolamo Fracastoro recato in altrettanti versi italiani con note
Features
Author: Girolamo Fracastoro
Publisher: Tipografia all'Ancora
Place of printing: Venice
Year of publication: 1842
Product Condition:
Half-leather binding with gold to the title back in good condition. Library label on spine, stamps and numbering the frontispiece. Well-preserved sheets with sporadic blooms more noticeable the past papers
Pages: 208
Format: In eighth
Dimensions (cm):
Height: 20
Width: 14
Description
Oval portrait of the author in the frontispiece engraved by s. Jesi designs by g. Longhi. In the introduction, biographical and bibliographical notes concerning the author, followed by the arguments of the three books in which you divide the work. Translation of the didactic poem in Latin hexameters "Syphilis sive de morbo gallico," published in 1530, with text to Latin-Italian front, the poem is the venereal disease that took its name from the main character of this work, the pastor Syphilus. The notes that follow the text are divided by topics (philology, mythology, history, geography, astrology, medicine, mineralogy, botany and natural history)