Browse Items (986 total)

Antonio Guarino's Le mechanice is the first Italian translation of and commentary on the pseudo-Aristotelian Mechanics. Guarino, who worked as inspector of fortifications for the duke Alfonso II d'Este of Modena was acquainted with Greek and…

4°. A2-K2. ff. [22]. mm. 202×294. Text in Roman. Geometrical drawings throughout the text and the commentary.

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…

8°; A-B4; ff. 8; text in Italics.

8°; ff. 38; Roman type.

8°. [A]-I4. ff. [36]. Gothic script. mm. 105×150.

The volume, printed in France in 1568 and edited by the fuoriuscito Jacopo Corbinelli, is the editio princeps of Brunetto Latini's compendium of the Ethics from his Trésor. The textual tradition of the work is most controversial, for it is linked to…