Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 177

GIROLAMO FRACASTORO (ca. 1478-1553) Hieronymi Fracastorii . . . Adami Fumani . . . et Nicolai Archii Comitis Carminum. Excudebat Josephus Cominus 1739 2nd ed. Vol. I: xl, 204, 171 [4] pp., front. (port.); Vol. II: xii, 282 [2] 139 [1] pp. 24.5 cm.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 171

The first edition of the present work was edited by Giovanni Antonio Volpi (1686-1766), a classicist and professor of philosophy at Padua for many years. It was first published at Padua in 1718 and included the text of Fracastoro's poems, testimonials, an anonymous biography, and verse by four contemporaries and friends of Fracastoro's--Giovanni Cotta (1480-1510), Jacob Bonfadi (1509-1550), Adam Fumani (d. 1587), and Niccolò d'Arco (1479-ca. 1546). This second edition, again edited by Volpi, contains additional material including letters to Fracastoro's friends--Pietro Bembo (1470-1547), Oviedo (fl. 1540), and Paolo Ramusio (1532-1600), plus many additional poems by Fracastoro.

Cited references: Osler 4815 (1st ed., 1718); Wellcome III, p. 51 (1st ed.)

Gift of William B. Bean, M.D