[The Paduan doctor Alessandro Pellati, his library and the first edition of De medicorum astrologia].

Il dottore padovano Alessandro Pellati, la sua biblioteca e l'editio princeps del De medicorum astrologia.

Publisher: Olschki Country of Publication: Italy NLM ID: 58230390R Publication Model: Print Cited Medium: Print ISSN: 0006-0941 (Print) Linking ISSN: 00060941 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Bibliofilia

Publication: Firenze : Olschki
Original Publication: Firenze, Olschki.

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The article prints the text of a document in the Archivio di Stato, Venice, comprising a list of books intended for auction, with an estimate of their value. THey constitute the private library of Alessandro Pellati (d. 1487), a Paduan doctor about whom nothing is known, except his name appears in the colophon of the first edition of a short treatise attributed to Hippocrates, the De medicorum astrologia seu de esse aegrorum, translated into Latin and published in Padua in 1483. The considerable number of astrological works in his library show that Pellati was keenly interested in the subject which, under the title of "natural magic", had assumed a significant place in medical studies at that time, particularly in Padua.

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