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Gastronomy. SAVONAROLA. Trattato utilissimo di molte regole.

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Gastronomy. SAVONAROLA. Trattato utilissimo di molte regole.
 SAVONAROLA, Michele. Trattato utilissimo di molte regole, per conservare la Sanità. [In fine:] Venezia, Heredi di Gioanne Padoano, 1554

8vo; 160x110 mm; Full vellum binding, calf label with gilt tile on the spine, red sprayed edges; leaves 84; Printer?s device on title page, allegory of Temperance, woman spilled water from a pitcher into another. Nice specimen.

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Rare and important medical and culinary treatise, dedicated to Borso d'Este, Duke of Modena. This dietary manual exposes the virtues and drawbacks of all kinds of foods, such as: wheat, corn, barley, flour, lentils, rice, vegetables, fruit, meat, fish, offal, saffron, oil, salt, pepper, sugar, honey; in the fourth chapter we speak of the vine, while the wines are studied in chapter eleven. In addition, a chapter is devoted to different types of water, another vinegar. Michele Savonarola, a famous physician, practiced and taught in Ferrara, where he treated Lionello d'Este.

Bibliography

Wellcome 5792; NLM 4076; Simon, Bacchica, II, 582; Vicaire 771, con la data 1553; BING 1774. 
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