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BELLANTI, LUCIO. De astrologica veritate liber quaestionum. 1554

BELLANTI, LUCIO. De astrologica veritate liber quaestionum [with GABRIELE PIROVANO, De astronomiae veritate dialogus absolutissimus]. [8], 270 [i. e., 302] pages; lacks last leaf, blank except for printer's device on verso. Folio, 326x209 mm, early 18th-century panelled calf with gilt arms of Thomas Coningsby, 1st Earl Coningsby (1656-1729) on covers, rebacked, cover corners worn, front cover detached; dark dampstaining in upper margins throughout, light dampstaining in lower outer corners toward end, occasional toning or browning, title soiled with signature of the London pharmacist Francis Bernard dated 1656 on recto and Sion College Library stamp on verso (released). Basel: (Jakob Kundig for Johann Herwagen), 1554

  • Notes: Third edition of a 1498 defense of astrology written in response to Giovanni Pico della Mirandola's Disputationes contra astrologos of the same year. This edition reprints a similar work by Pirovano originally published in 1507. Thorndike V, 541-42; Zinner 2079.

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