Peter Andrew

MATTHIOLI

OF SIENA

Physician to the Most Serene Prince Ferdinand,

Archduke of Austria, etc.

COMMENTARIES, EXPANDED FOR THE SECOND TIME,

ON THE SIX BOOKS OF PEDANIUS DIOSCORIDES

OF ANAZARBUS CONCERNING MEDICAL

MATTERS.

original: "De Medica Materia." This refers to the foundational Greek text on herbal medicine and pharmacology.

With the addition of very many images of plants and animals

which were not contained in the previous edition,

by the same author.

TO THIS IS ADDED THE SAME AUTHOR'S APOLOGY AGAINST

Amatus Lusitanus, as well as a Censure of his commentaries.

Amatus Lusitanus was a rival physician; an "Apology" in this context is a formal written defense of one's own positions against a critic.

A woodcut printer's device featuring a serpent coiled around a T-shaped cross (Tau cross). At the bottom, two hands emerge from stylized clouds to grip the base of the cross. The syllables "VIN" and "CENT" are printed on either side of the vertical timber of the cross. This is the printer's mark of Vincenzo Valgrisi; the syllables "VIN-CENT" are a pun on his name and the Latin word for "they conquer."

AT VENICE,

From the Erasmian Workshop of Vincenzo Valgrisi.

1558.