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Zaccaria, Lilio
Brief description of the world of Zaccheria Lilio from Vicenza translated for M. Francesco Baldelli, 1552
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Venice, next to Gabriel Giolito De Ferrari and Fratelli, 1551 (in colophon, 1552). In 8th. Brand of the phoenix on the title page, decorated xylographic initials, coeval binding in full parchment from the 18th century, title on the spine on a red patch. Ex libris al contropiatto by Amedei Svajer.
Specialist Notes
He was probably born in Vicenza in the first half of the fifteenth century (around 1498 he was by now old) and belonged to the Lilii family, later known as Zilio or de 'Zilii. His most successful work, in the field of cosmographic science, is the Orbis breviarium, a study of the Earth based on the description of individual cities, mentioned in alphabetical order. The Orbis is not presented as an original work, but as a systematic collection of what had already been studied and written by the ancients and professional cosmographers and is also scarcely updated, as the author does not mention the progress of studies on the Earth and not even to the great geographical discoveries of his time. The treaty, which saw the light in Florence in 1493, achieved considerable success, attested by the fact that it was republished three more times within a few years - in Naples in 1496 in Venice around 1505 and again in Venice around 1540 and it was followed by a translation into the vernacular (the present lot), written in the mid-16th century by Francesco Baldelli, who also added the modern toponyms, absent in the original version.