Fracastorii Hieronymi

Hieronymi Fracastorii Veronensis Poemata Omnia, Nuinc Multo, Quam Antea, Emendatiora. Accesserunt Erliquiae Carminum Joannis Cottae, Jacobi Bonfadii, Adami Fumani, Nicolai Archii, Poetarum Veronensium

      Patavii. [Padua, 1718] Exc. Josephus Cominus. Large 8vo. pp [16] xl; 242, leaf of similar publications. Light waterstaining thorughout the lower half. Original calf & boards, raised bands. Beautifully printed, with woodcut initials and head-and tail-pieces throughout. A large copy, wide margins, uncut. Frontis portrait of Fracastoro; title-page woodcut depicts a laborer excavating artifacts of the past (ancient coins, ceramics, sculpture). * Girolamo Fracastoro (1478-1553), of Verona, was a doctor and scientist, as well as a poet. Themes of his greatest literary work, The Syphilis, dedicated to Pietro Bembo, are the European exploration of the New World, and the rapid spread of the syphilis epidemic. Fracastori? s Syphilis became one of the most celebrated poems of the Renaissance; Fracastori was hailed as a major Latin poet, and compared to Virgil.