Florence: Lorenzo Torrentino, c1551.
The remarkable case of young Margaretha Weiss [1529-?], a girl from the village of Rode outside of Speyer, who, for three years following her tenth birthday, reportedly neither ate nor drank, yet seemed to grow more or less normally, play with her friends, talk, laugh, and.....
Teramo: Presso Berardo Carlucci e Compagni, 1805.
A most interesting general appeal by the Teramo physician Giuseppe Saliceti, addressed to the regional scientific community, for a reconsideration of the practice of iatromathematics, or the application of mathematical laws and precepts to the function and health of the human body. Saliceti.....
Bassano: Giovanni Antonio Remondini, c1658.
The first illustrated edition of the Tuscan poet and proto-feminist Chiara Matraini's highly personal retelling of the life of the Virgin, written when the author was nearly 75. Very little is known of Matraini's early life, though she certainly participated at age 16 in the.....
?Rome: S.n., c1530.
A very good copy of an early edition of the Portuguese apothecary Pedro Damiano de Odemira's illustrated Italian-Spanish chess manual, Libro da imparare giocare à scacchi. It was arguably the first and most important modern practical work on the subject, and was the inflection point between chess.....
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Modena: 1774.
One of only a very few known publications issued by the Carpi foundling hospital, a beneficent organization inaugurated in 1690 near Modena for the care and agrarian education of local bastardini. The short pamphlet comprises essentially the set of regulations governing the management of the orphanage's farmland, especially.....