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(1575). DOLCE (Lodovico). DIALOGO, NEL QUALE SI RAGIONA DEL MODO ACCRESCERE E CONSERVAR LA MEMORIA, Venice, Heredi di Marchio Sessa, 1575. In-8 of 113 (of 118) leaves, brown half-basin with corners (antique binding). SECOND ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Important and curious treatise on preserving memory, decorated with 18 (of 23) remarkable full-page and in-text woodcuts (a city with a library, the philosophical tree, a human head with the position of the mental faculties, a female allegory of grammar, etc.). The work, written in dialogue on the model of Cicero, is a translation, with additions, of Johannes Romberch's Treatise published in 1520. 5 leaves (51-55) are missing. (Brunet II, 789) (Mortimer, Italian 157, ed. 1562) (USTC 827147).
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(1575). DOLCE (Lodovico). DIALOGO, NEL QUALE SI RAGIONA DEL MODO ACCRESCERE E CONSERVAR LA MEMORIA, Venice, Heredi di Marchio Sessa, 1575. In-8 of 113 (of 118) leaves, brown half-basin with corners (antique binding). SECOND ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Important and curious treatise on preserving memory, decorated with 18 (of 23) remarkable full-page and in-text woodcuts (a city with a library, the philosophical tree, a human head with the position of the mental faculties, a female allegory of grammar, etc.). The work, written in dialogue on the model of Cicero, is a translation, with additions, of Johannes Romberch's Treatise published in 1520. 5 leaves (51-55) are missing. (Brunet II, 789) (Mortimer, Italian 157, ed. 1562) (USTC 827147).
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