Humanism. TORRENTINO. Elucidario poetico.

Italian translation of Elucidarius carminum et historiarum. Torrentinus, the Dutch humanist and professor of rheroric, has compiled a handy reference tool for geographical, personal, and mythological names, as well as basic Arabic, Hebrew and Greek terms of expression in law, natural history, etc. The work was highly popular and went through many editions, and was often imitated. It was later expanded and translated by by such scholars as Thomas Elyot and Charles Estienne, and it is a major source for tghe lexicographers of the 16th and 17th centuries, such as Cooper, Minsheu, and Skinner. Edition with elegant iillustrated Initials and two wonderful printers' mark, elephant with a tower on its back.