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8°; e7, A-Z8, Aa-Cc4; ff. [7], pp. 403, [1], ff. 4; mm. 105×158. Dedication and text in italics, preamble in roman.

Pompeo Vizzani's Delle meteore, written in 1587, is a brief compendium of meteorology. As it is usually the case with Vizzani's works, sources are not explicitly mentioned, but the Aristotelian frame of the text is rather evident. The work is…

Paper; misc.; ff. III, 389; mm. 282_212. Autograph. Relevant unit (n°2): ff. 15.

The Discorso breve, dedicated to Alfonso Cavazzi, count of Somaglia, opens with a polemical preamble referring to a previous work by Bernardino Baldini (Bernardini Baldini Lusus ad m. Antonium Baldinum fratris filium, Milan: 1586). The short…

Pompeo Vizzani's Compendio della scienza dei costumi, dedicated to the author's nephew, Camillo, is in essence a summary paraphrase of Books III—V and again VIII of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, with attention centred on the various virtues. The…

Antonio Riccobono, previously asked to explain a passage from Aristotle's Politics concerning Hyppodamus's republic, writes to Cosimo Concini referring to a dispute which involved scholars such as Marc-Antoine Muret and Pietro Vettori. In the…

8°; A-B4; ff. 8; text in Italics.

Paper; misc.; ff. III, 389; mm. 282_212. Autograph. Relevant unit (n°1): ff. 12.

Paper; misc., comp.; ff. I, 333, I; mm. 340_220.

4°. *-***4, A-Z4, Aa-Oo4. ff. 160: [12], 147, [1]. Text in italics; index in roman. 141×205 mm.