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[HISTORY] - Plague in Rome: Causes, Symptoms, and Secret Remedies - PISANELLI Baldassare (1559 - 1583) - Baldassare Pisanelli, Discorso… sopra la peste. Rome, Heirs of Antonio Blado, 1577. 4to (210x150 mm); [16], 131, [1] pp. Heraldic woodcut on title, woodcut printer’s device on final page, woodcut initials and ornaments. Modern boards. Minor stain to upper margins of leaves E1–F1, otherwise very good/fine copy. First edition of a Renaissance medical treatise on the causes, signs, and remedies of plague. The author served as papal hospital physician in Rome.