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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…

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

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°. a4, a-d4, A-O4, P6; ff. [4], pp. 29, [3], pp. 122. Text in Roman. mm. 145×200.