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4°; A4-B4; ff. 8. Epistle in Roman, text in Italics.

The Trattato is a summary of Aristotelian mistakes in the field of natural philosophy, with a special focus on cosmography and heavens. The author, Giovanni Maria Benedetti, refers to several Aristotelian passages as well as to more recent authors…

Paper; misc., comp.; ff. III, 356, I; mm. 223_164. Later binding in cardboard. 8 units.

Beltrami's notes to Bulgarini discuss the notion of allegory referring to several sources. The main frame of Beltrami's account is Aristotelian: as stated in the preface letter, he is following the division of Aristotle's text (Poetics) below Maggi…

Paper; misc., comp.; ff. [III], 359, [II]. mm. 210_310.

This is a vernacular translation of Aristotle's Problemata, XIX, On harmony. As we know from other works by Bartoli, he was very interested in Greek theories of music and musical harmony.

Paper; mm. 200_140; ff. 100.

The first part is a critical discussion of rainbow and its nature (the work opens with a defence of the 'new philosophy' based on the sensate esperienze: Galileo is obviously mentioned). The second part is a thorough commentary of the section on the…

4°. [*]3, a-d4, [*]2, A-M4, N6. Roman, Latin text italics. mm. 140×205.

8°. A-G8. ff. 56: [1], pp. 3-109. Italics. 165×105 mm.