1583 DELLA INSTITUTION MORALE di M.ALESSANDRO PICCOLOMINI antique VELLUM BINDING

DELLA INSTITUTION MORALE di M.ALESSANDRO PICCOLOMINI libri XII In Venetia: Presso Francesco Ziletti; 1583 Size 6 by 8" Full vellum, spine with raised bands and manuscript title & date 559 pp. plus preface Very good condition except small wormtrack at the inner margin of first 50 leaves , minor occasional foxing, very clean and crisp pages Text in Italian ================================= Alessandro Piccolomini (1508 – 1579) was an Italian humanist, astronomer and philosopher from Siena, who promoted the popularization in the vernacular of Latin and Greek scientific and philosophical treatises. His early works include Il Dialogo della bella creanza delle donne, o Raffaella (1539) and the comedies Amor costante, and Alessandro, which were sponsored and produced by the Sienese Accademia degli Intronati, of which he was a member and an official. Much of his literary production consisted of translations from the Classics, of which Book XIII of O