191 - Cagnati, Marsilio. *De sanitate tuenda*. Pavia, Pasquati for Bolzetta, 1605. One of the most important studies on physical culture and the preservation of physical health

Cagnati, Marsilio. *De sanitate tuenda*. Pavia, Pasquati for Bolzetta, 1605. One of the most important studies on physical culture and the preservation of physical health Cagnati, Marsilio. *De sanitate tuenda*. Pavia, Pasquati for Bolzetta, 1605. Quarto (205 x 150 mm); [18], 196 leaves. Printer’s mark on the title page, woodcut initials and decorative motifs (some halos, small stains). Contemporary binding in soft full parchment, handwritten title on the spine and lower edge, traces of binding ribbons. A fine copy of the second edition. A physician from Verona who moved to Rome, the author attended the school of Alessandro Petronio, the pope’s personal physician, first becoming his assistant and then his successor at the Hospital of Santo Spirito in Sassia, where Cardinal Salviati was also among his patients. The rules of hygiene and diet, linked to the balanced use of all the faculties, form the foundation of this treatise, which opens with a celebration of continence—understood as *ciborum mediocritas*—followed by a detailed discussion of diet, interwoven with classical sources. The second book, on the other hand, focuses on gymnastics. One of the most important studies on physical culture and the preservation of the body’s health