Della fisonomia dell' huomo /
del sig. Gio. Battista della Porta napolitano ; libri sei ; tradotta da latino in volgare, e dall'istesso autore, accresciuta di figure, & di luoghi necessarij à diverse parte dell' opera.

Description

Main Author

Porta, Giambattista della, approximately 1535-1615.

Related Names

Vitale, Costantino.
Scarano, Salvatore.
Novo, Geronimo de.
Carlino, Giovanni Giacomo.

Language(s)

Italian

Published

In Napoli : Appresso Gio. Giacomo Carlino e Costantino Vitale, ad instanza di Saluatore Scarano, MDCX [1610]

Subjects

Physiognomy > Physiognomy / Early works to 1800.
Engravings > Engravings / Italy > Engravings / Italy / 17th century.

Note

Signatures: a⁴ A-2F⁶.
Engraved coat of arms on t.p. of viceroy Pedro Ferdinándo de Castro y Andrada, to whom work is dedicated. Port. of della Porta by Geronimo de Novo on t.p. verso. In-text ill. mostly bear arabic or roman numbers, but do not appear in sequence (numerous repeats). Head- and tail-pieces, initials.
First ed. of Scarano's Italian translation. Another translation by Giovanni di Rosa appeared at Naples in 1598. Original Latin ed. published 1586 at Vico Equense (near Naples).

Physical Description

[8], 202, 201-346 p. : ill., ports. ; 33 cm (fol.)

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