1667 HERBARIO NOVO by Castore DURANTE antique PLANTS BOTANY FULLY ILLUSTRATED

HERBARIO NOVO [...].
CON FIGURE, CHE RAPPRESENTANO LE VIVE PIANTE, CHE NASCONO IN TUTTA EUROPA & NELL'INDIE ORIENTIALI, & OCCIDENTALI [...].

by DURANTE, Castore

Venice; 1667

Folio: 9 by 12 1/3"

[12]-476-[27] pp.


Some dampstaining , lower corner of title repaired and some repairs to the last ff.,

some manuscript notes, modern leather binding, flat spine with embossed title and ornament


 - Renowned work on simples and indigenous European plants by Durante (1529-1590), botanist and chief physician at the court of Pope Sixtus V.

Illustrated with c. 1000 woodcuts in-text. 

Large printer's mark on title with the motto "Portum fortiter occupies" :
the image of a sail ship within an ornamental frame and allegorical figures,
.


Ref. Cp. Nissen (BBI), Pritzel, Wellcome.


- Provenance:  period manuscript entry on the title page. 

text in Italian


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Castore Durante, also called Castor Durante da Gualdo (1529 –  1590) was a physician, botanist and poet of the Italian Renaissance.
His father was the jurist Giovan Diletto Durante. He had five siblings, including a brother named Pollùce (Pollux).

He graduated in medicine at Perugia in 1567 and practiced as a doctor in Gualdo Tadino.
He later taught at the "Archiginnasio della Sapienza" (now called the Sapienza University of Rome) and, on the recommendation of Cardinal Girolamo Rusticucci, was appointed chief physician at the court of Pope Sixtus V.

He died at Viterbo in 1590 and was buried in the church of the Franciscan monastery.

Herbario Nuovo, published in 1585, is a description of medicinal plants from Europe and the Indies (East and West).
The first editions were illustrated by Leonardo Parasole da Norcia (fl.1570), while the third edition contains woodcuts by his wife, the engraver Isabella Parasole.
Each species includes discussions of its habitat and medicinal uses, in both Italian and Latin.
It went through eleven editions in Italian, German and Spanish.

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