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Aristotle

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Description

  • Aristotle
  • L'Ethica... tradotta in lingua vulgare fiorentina et comentata per Bernardo Segni. Florence: (Lorenzo Torrentino, August) 1550
  • Paper
4to (197 x 134mm.), title within woodcut border incorporating the arms of the Medici and a view of Florence, ADDITIONAL FOLDING ETCHED PLATE by Martin Rota (monogram MS) with portraits of Alessandro and Cosimo de' Medici with a personification of Tuscany (dating from the later sixteenth century), with final blank leaf, seventeenth-century gold-tooled vellum, flat spine gilt with title lettered in manuscript, blue gauffered edges, binding very slightly soiled

Literature

Censimento 16 CNCE 2929; Bartsch XVI 281.105

Catalogue Note

This is one of several translations of Aristotle into Italian carried out by Bernardo Segni (1504-1558), a scholar, historian and diplomat who worked for Cosimo de' Medici.