Bidspirit auction | Girolamo Fracastoro

Girolamo Fracastoro - Girolamo Fracastoro - Syphilis, 1738. Bologna, a S. Tommaso d'Acquino, 1738. In 4°. Half leather binding. Spine with 5 raised bands and with title, author and decorations in gold. Light browning. Some pages are slightly trimmed. Copy of the eighteenth-century translation of the mock-heroic poem by Sebastiano degli Antoni, first published in Augsburg in 1530 by Fracastoro, a physicist and philosopher from a patrician family of Verona. Gamba 2244.