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4°. A-C4, D2. ff. 14. Preface italics, text roman, marginalia italics. mm. 140×200.

4°. [*]4, A-L4. ff. [4], 37, 7. Italics. mm. 130×180.

4°. A-P4. ff. 53, [7]. Italics. mm. 130x180.

The work is a compendium of meteorology very focused on the knowledge of winds and their nature. Aristotle's Meteorology undoubtedly plays a main role among Breventano's sources, which are nonetheless extremely heterogeneous (Hippocrates, Seneca,…

Breventano's treatise on the natural elements opens with an interesting preface to the readers in which the author explains the importance of disseminating scientific culture not only through translations and commentaries, but through compendia as…

The Trattato is conceived as a development of some remarks given in the Trattato degli elementi. The work is introduced by a preface to the readers which summarises what the author had written in the preface to the previous work. NEED TO CHECK AN…

Breventano's treatise is mainly based on Aristotle's Ethics and Rhetoric, but other classical — as well as christian — authors are often quoted. A general introduction on the notion of virtue, very based on Cicero and Aristotle, is followed by…

8°. *4 A-Z8 AA-EE8 FF4. ff. 232: [4], 252 [i.e. 225], 3. Text in roman; titles of paragraphs in italics. 100×150 mm.

8°. n4 A-G8 H4. ff. 64 [– 1]: [4], 59. Italics. 92×146 mm.

8°. n8 A-Y8 Z4. ff. 188 [– 1]: [8], 179. Italics. 92×146 mm.

8°. †4 A-H8 I4. ff. 72: [4], 67, [1]. Text in roman; titles of paragraphs in italics. 100×150 mm.

8°; +4, A8-Q8, R4; ff. [4], 132; mm.

Antonio Brucioli's translation of Aristotle's Politics is dedicated to Piero Strozzi.

The work is mentioned by Haym (Biblioteca Italiana: II, 482) and Mazzucchelli (Scrittori d'Italia: II, 4, 2151) as printed in Venice by Curzio Troiano Navò in 1545, but no copies seem to be extant.