Baldassare Pisanelli (?-1587)

Discorso di M. Baldassare Pisanelli bolognese medico di S. Spirito sopra la peste diviso in due parti. ... In Roma, per gli Heredi di Antonio Blado, 1577


§ 4to, (210 x 150); [16], 131, [1] pp., signature: a-b1-4, A-Q1-4, R1-2. Heraldic woodcut on title page, woodcut printer’s device on last page, woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. Modern boards. Stain on upper part of leaves E1-F1, otherwise very good copy.

First and only edition. Pisanelli, a physician from Bologna, was a pupil of Ulisse Aldrovandi; he taught meicine and was appointed physician of the hospital S. Spirito in Rome by Pope Gregorio XIII. As announced in the title, the work includes two parts: “Nella prima distintamente si tratta delle cause universali, e particolari e de gli effetti, e segni di quella. Nella seconda si contengono numerosi rimedij, e singolari segreti, … per preservar ciascuno dalla peste” (In the first it is especially question of universal and particular causes and effects, and signs of that (the plague). The second contains numerous remedies, and singular secrets, ... to protect each one from the plague). Uncommon publication.
Ref: Scifoni Dizionario biografico universale Firenze, 1845-46, IV, p. 565; De Renzi Storia della medicina in Italia Napoli, 1845, III, 584