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Wednesday 18 November 2020, 10:30 AM • Rome

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Garzoni, Tommaso

The Synagogue of the ignorant, 1589

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€ 128

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Information

Pavia, Andrea Viani, 1589. In the 8th. Letterpress engraved in wood on the title page, initials and woodcut friezes, text in italics, slight and sporadic halos, light burnishing, contemporary parchment binding, restoration of the front plate, gaps in the spine, defects. Title page membership stamp.



Specialist Notes

Second edition, printed the same year as the first. Tommaso Garzoni (1549-1589) proposes an erudite and satirical work structured in 16 books which describes ignorance, its various expressions and the effects of ignorance on society. In particular, there is a polemical vein against the scholar Giusto Giuseppe Scaligero and the writers & nbsp; Ortensio Lando, Anton Francesco Doni, Agrippa di Nettesheim.