Gesualdo, Plutosofia, Padua, 1592, old patterned boards

GESUALDO, FILIPPO

Plutosofia... nella quale si spiega l'arte della memoria con altre cose notabili pertinenti, tanto alla memoria naturale, quanto all'artificiale. Padua: Paolo Meietti, 1592

8vo (190 x 127mm.), woodcut printer's device on title-page, woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, full-page woodcut illustration, later patterned paper boards with manuscript fragment along spine, small paper flaw in margin of [paraph paraph]1, woodcut slightly trimmed

FIRST EDITION of the Franciscan Gesualdo's treatise on mnemonics, based on lectures he gave at Palermo.

LITERATURE:

Edit16 20728; Tomash & Williams G41; USTC 832373

PROVENANCE:

Poveri fanciulli di San Giovanni Battista, Varallo (Piemonte), inscriptions on inside front cover: "Nell'elenco de libri rari V.3.74.4" and "Del V. seminario di S. Gio. Bat. in Varallo"; bought from Fiammetta Soave, Rome, 1990; Erwin Tomash, booklabel