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Musaeum Historicum - IMPERIALIS (Joannis) MUSÆUM Historicum et Physicum . Ioannis Imperialis phil. et med. Vicentini in primo illustrium literis virorum imagines ad vivum expresse continentur; additis elogijs eorundem uitas, et mores notantibus. In secundo animorum imagines, siue ingeniorum nature, differentie, cause, ac signa phiysicé perpenduntur. Venetiis: Apud Juntas, 1640. [16], 122, [8], 220, [22] pp.: il.; 215 mm. Divided into two distinct parts, the Musæum Historicum et Physicum (Venice, Giunti, 1640) is a scholarly and unusual book, halfway between a portrait gallery and a ”natural” essay on the human spirit. In the first volume , Giovanni Imperiali brings together engraved portraits of illustrious men of letters , accompanied by texts that point out their lives, customs, and merits; in the second , he proposes a reflection on the ”images of the minds” —that is, on the nature, differences, causes, and signs of the various ingenuities and temperaments , in a register typical of the medical and philosophical culture of the 17th century. An attractive Venetian edition, with a strong iconographic component featuring engraved portraits. Unusual and intriguing. ! Please note that this translated text was generated by Google. !