DOLCE, Ludovico (1508-1568) - Dialogo nel quale si ragiona del modo di accrescere & conservar la memoria. Venice: Sessa e fratelli, 1586. 

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25.01.2022 10:00UTC +02:00
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Lot 45 | DOLCE, Ludovico (1508-1568) - Dialogo nel quale si ragiona del modo di accrescere & conservar la memoria. Venice: Sessa e fratelli, 1586. 
DOLCE, Ludovico (1508-1568) - Dialogo nel quale si ragiona del modo di accrescere & conservar la memoria. Venice: Sessa e fratelli, 1586.

A 16th-century edition of this work accompanied by interesting woodcut illustrations and published for the first time in Venice a few years earlier. The "Congestorium artificiose memorie" by Host von Romberch printed in 1520 with the blocks designed by Giorgio de 'Rusconi was used as the basis for the text and the woodcuts, and in the work Dolce analyzes the various mnemonic techniques.

8vo (146 x 100mm). Printer's device on title page, numerous illustrations in the text, some of which are full page (occasional marginal staining). Contemporary vellum with manuscript title on spine (partially detached, some stains).
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