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By Pietro Andrea

MATTHIOLI

OF SIENA original: "Senensis"

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" - the foundational text of 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 THESE IS ADDED HIS OWN DEFENSE original: "Apologia"

Against Amatus Lusitanus, A Portuguese physician who had criticized Mattioli's earlier work including a Critique of his commentaries.

The printer's mark of Vincenzo Valgrisi. It depicts a serpent coiled around a wooden Tau cross (the Nehushtan). Two hands emerge from stylized clouds at the bottom to hold the base of the cross upright. Flanking the vertical beam of the cross are the mirrored letters "VIRT" (left) and "VIM" (right), part of the printer's motto "Virtue Conquers Force" original: "Vincit Vim Virtus".

AT VENICE

From the Erasmian Workshop of Vincenzo Valgrisi.

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