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Venice, Giunta, 1587. In 4th. Thiographic brand on the title page and on the last leaf, with numerous woodcut engravings by Pirro Ligorio based on drawings by Cristoforo Coriolani, some glosses in the text by an ancient hand, detached file D5-6 (pp.55-56), small restorations on the corners of the first papers, rare redness, some slight traces of humidity, posthumous parchment binding. Signature of Tommaso Codronchi of Imola, son of the doctor Giovan Battista Codronchi (Imola 1547-1628).
Specialist Notes
De arte gymnastica, written in 1569 by the Forlì doctor Girolamo Mercuriale, was the text that sanctioned the birth of sports medicine, re-evaluating the role of this discipline in the medical and therapeutic fields. The first edition of the work appeared in Venice in 1569, with the dedication to Cardinal Alessandro Farnese. A subsequent reprint was published in the years 1569-1573, enlarged and modified, with a dedication to the emperor Maximilian II. These were followed by an edition in Paris (1577) and two in Venice (1587 and 1601), published while the author was still alive. Only after Mercuriale's death did two reprints come to light, which can be placed respectively in 1644 and 1672, of which the last is interpolated.
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