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Giovanni Cinelli Calvoli, Della biblioteca volante di Gio. Cinelli Caluoli patrizio fiorentino, e forliuese Accadem. Gelato &c. Scanzia X. Consagrata al … Giorlamo Albrizzi, In Venezia MDCCV.Ca. 16.5 x 11 cm; Contemporary cardboard binding.
A few stains; otherwise, paper clean and un-toned; in very good state.
Giovanni Cinelli Calvoli was born in Florence on February 26, 1625. He studied at the University of Pisa, where one of his teachers was Evangelista Torricelli. After receiving his doctorate in philosophy and medicine, he married and returned to Florence in 1651. He collected small rare opuscules and published them by notebooks, under the title of Biblioteca volante, scanzia 1, 2, 3, 4, etc., in-8°. The author sometimes joined criticisms in note to the title of the works as in the 4th book, about a discussion between two doctors of Florence of which one, doctor of the grand duke Cosme III of Medici, accuses Cinelli of calumny, attacks him in justice and makes him condemn to withdraw the… Read More