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« Scientific » or « diabolic magician »?

February 1, 2023 admin

Giambattista Della Porta’s fame (Napoli 1535 -1615) is linked to the extraordinary best-seller De Magia Naturalis (1558) and the life-long…

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Da Sotheby’s una “abbuffata” di incunaboli

October 7, 2022 admin

Con un’asta a tempo chiusasi lunedi 4 ottobre Sotheby’s ha proposto a Milano un gran numero di edizioni incunabole, un…

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Athanasius KIRCHER : Three masterpieces of a genius of the seventeenth century

May 4, 2022 admin

Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680) is known to historians, orientalists, esoterics and naturalists as “the last man to know everything” and the…

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Cesena Antiquarian Book Fair 19-20 febbraio 2022

February 5, 2022 admin

Contento che la tenacia dell’organizzatrice nel volere la fiera permetta di incontrarci e di scambiar libri oltre che opinioni, aneddoti…

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A Renaissance bestseller: Dr. Mattioli’s Discorsi (on the medical use of plants)

January 7, 2022 admin

The combination of successful intuition, scientific knowledge and entrepreneurship enabled the doctor and humanist Mattioli and his Venetian publisher Valgrisi…

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Photo-portrait in XIX century: “access to public visibility”

November 9, 2021 admin

In the middle of the 19th century the photo-portrait is already widespread when, in 1854, the Parisian André Adolphe Eugène…

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Recent Posts

  • « Scientific » or « diabolic magician »?
  • Da Sotheby’s una “abbuffata” di incunaboli
  • Athanasius KIRCHER : Three masterpieces of a genius of the seventeenth century
  • Cesena Antiquarian Book Fair 19-20 febbraio 2022
  • A Renaissance bestseller: Dr. Mattioli’s Discorsi (on the medical use of plants)
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