BENEDETTI, Alessandro

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BENEDETTI, Alessandro
Anatomice sive historia corporis hûani. Eisudem collectiones medicinales seu aforismi. Paris, Henri Estienne, 1514. Small in-4 (194 x 138 mm) of 82 ff.ch. Basane, large cold scrolls framing the boards, central panel with floral composition in small irons, smooth spine, red edges (18th century binding). Durling, 521; Renouard, Estienne, 15:3; Wellcome, 200. Missing from Schreiber, Adams and British Library. First edition printed by Estienne. It is illustrated with a fine woodcut title, decorated with scrollwork and two figures. Alessandro Benedetti (1452-1512), Italian Renaissance physician, anatomist, historian, philologist and humanist, received his first literary lessons from Giovanni Antonio Panteo, professor of humanities in Verona, his native city. "Alexander Benedictus was a medical professor, much interested in anatomy, who had effective command of Greek obtained during residence in the Levant. By about 1490 he was demonstrating anatomy in Padua, where he had a special building for the purpose. His Anatomice was printed at Venice in 1502 and several times afterwards. Its significance for us is that it passes the Latino-Arabic lightly and goes direct to he Greek of Galen with Benedictus must have studies in manuscripts. After Mundinus it is the first work entirely devoted to anatomy, and he is certainly the first anatomist after Valla to draw terms from Pollux. It is likely that Vesalius had read the book of Benedictus before he left Paris, since a student's edition had been issued there in 1514 by Henri Estienne" (Charles Singer, A Prelude to Modern Science). A good copy, wide margins. Provenance: Fuker, Kosice (bookplate).
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