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8°. A-M8. ff. 96. Text roman.

4°. [*]4, A-Z4, AA-FF4. ff. [7], CXII [i.e. 113]. mm. 150×210. Roman.

8°. A-X8, Y4. p. 344. Dedication letter italics; text roman.

Giovanni Manenti's work is a collection of three Aristotelian texts which had a wide circulation during the Middle Ages: according to Zinelli 2000: 538-541, Manenti's vernacular version of the Secret of secrets seems to draw on Vivaldo Belcalzèr's…

4°; ff. [8], 176 [i.e. 178], [2]; †4, +4, A-N4,

8°. n8 A-Y8 Z4. ff. 188 [– 1]: [8], 179. Italics. 92×146 mm.

4°; ff. [8], 242, [2]. [*]4,†4, A-Z4, AA-ZZ4, AAa-PPp4.

The work is a treatise of moral philosophy conceived as a pedagogical tool since it follows the education and training of a noble man (gentiluomo) from childhood to first maturity. It is a sort of compendium/paraphrase of Aristotle's Ethics, but book…