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De Natura.
Le Sabord 1997 1 vol. broché in-8, broché, couv. illustrée, 113 pp., photos en couleurs. Très bon état.
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Chocolata inda, Opusculum De qualitate & natura chocolatae. Traité sur le chocolat par Colmenero de Ledesma
Edition originale latine du premier ouvrage européen consacré au chocolat et au cacao, conservée dans son pur vélin à recouvrement de l’époque. I-COLMENERO DE LEDESMA, Antonio. Chocolata inda, Opusculum De qualitate & natura chocolatae. Nuremberg, Wolfgang Ender, 1644. [Suivi de :] II-VOLCKAMER, Johann Georg. Opobalsami orientalis In Theriaces Confectionem Romae revocati examen... Nuremberg, Wolgang Ender, 1644. [Et de :] III-TENTZELIUS, Andrea. Medicina diastatica. hoc est singularis illa et admirabilis ad distans... Jehn, Johannis Birckneri, 1629. 3 textes reliés en 1 volume petit in-12 de : I/ 1 frontispice sur double-page, (10) ff., 73 pp., (7) pp.; II/ 1 frontispice, (3) ff., 224 pp., (8); III/ 1 frontispice, (7) ff., 188 pp. Le dernier texte est uniformément bruni, quelques rousseurs, petite restauration en marge de la p. 83 du deuxième texte sans atteintes au texte. Relié en plein vélin rigide de l’époque à recouvrement, dos lisse. Reliure d’époque. 120 x 67 mm.
Ce traité sur le chocolat, originellement écrit en espagnol par Antonio Colmenero de Ledesma en 1631, fut traduit en latin par Marcus Aurelius Severinus. Le présent texte sur le chocolat franchit rapidement les frontières comme cet aliment devient de plus en plus apprécié. Ce texte sera un des plus grands textes du siècle sur le chocolat et il sera largement diffusé sur le continent et traduit en français en 1641, en latin en 1644, et en italien en 1678, mais aussi en anglais en 1652. Il est ici suivi d’extraits de deux autres traités: une dissertation sur l’arbre à cacao par J.-E. Nieremberg, et un article sur l’hypocondrie par P. Zacchias. «Antonio Colmenero de Ledesma wrote his monograph in 1631, entitled ‘Curioso tratado de la naturaleza y calidad del chocolate’, a much-cited and much-translated publication. Colmenero’s text was highly circulated throughout Europe, so much so that different editions and translations of his work have been difficult to attribute to specific authors. » (L. Grivetti & H-Y. Shapiro, Chocolate: history, culture and heritage). Dans le présent ouvrage, Colmenero considère les vertus médicales du chocolat, et c’est à ce titre qu’il sera mentionné dans bien des bibliographies et revues médicales des XVIIème et XVIIIème siècles. Selon l’auteur, le cacao permettrait de conserver une bonne santé, et rendrait ses consommateurs corpulents, beaux et aimables. L’auteur présente également ici pour la première fois la recette d’une boisson chocolatée faite à base de 100 fèves de cacao, de fruits secs, d’épices mais aussi de piments et de sucre. Cette recette sera reprise et modifiée par de nombreux auteurs au cours du XVIIème siècle tels que: Thomas Hurtado, l’auteur de Chocolate y tabaco, Ayuno eclesisatico y natural en 1645, Thomas Gage, l’auteur de The English American: his travel by sea en 1648, et Henry Stubbe l’auteur de The Indian nectar, or, a Discourse concerning Chocolata en 1662. Antonio Colmenero de Ledesma était un fervent amateur de chocolat qui cherchait à promouvoir les multiples propriétés médicinales de ces fèves. Le présent traité est illustré d’un très beau frontispice sur double page montrant Neptune debout sur son char marin, à qui une indienne offre une boite de chocolats. «La figure représente une conque marine traînée par des chevaux marins. L’Indien qui la conduit, muni d’un trident, remet à un personnage du continent une boîte de chocolats avec la mention ‘chocolat inda’». II/ Série d’articles et de controverses, par divers médecins de l’époque, au sujet d’un baume oriental. Krivatsy 12472; Poggendorff, II, 1228; Oberlé, n°730. Le beau frontispice montre un Indien avec la plante et un pot de pharmacie. Séduisant exemplaire de ce traité fondamental sur le chocolat, conservé dans son vélin à recouvrement de l’époque. Provenance: ex libris Christoph. Iac. Trew. M. D.
Vccelliera overo discorso della natura, e proprieta di diversi vccelli, e in particolare di qve’che cantano. Con il modo di prendergli, conoscergli, alleuargli, e mantenergli. E con le Figure... Opera Dedicata al Sig. Cavalier dal Pozzo. L’un des grands livres de chasse italien
“The second edition and superior to the first” (Schwerdt). Roma, Presso M. Angelo de Rossi, 1684.Grand in-4 de (1) f.bl., (5) ff., 77 ff. (erreurs de pagination), (1) p.bl., (6) ff. Plein vélin ivoire, dos lisse avec le titre doré, tranches jaspées. Reliure de l’époque. 277 x 198 mm.
« The second edition and superior to the first » (Schwerdt, II, 49). Souhart 356 ; Harting 278 ; Fairfax Murray, Italieni, n°1377. L’un des grands livres de chasse italien orné d’un titre grave avec encadrement historié et de 66 gravures à pleine page. « Opera illustrata da numerose figure a pagina intera, incise all’acquaforte dal Tempesta e dal Villamena” (Fairfax Murray). “L’édition de Rome, 1684 [est] plus belle pour l’impression” que la première. (Brunet, 180) Le nombre d’estampes est identique à celui de la première édition imprimée à Rome en 1622 mais ici plusieurs planches ont été regravées : (l.16) Del Pettirosso, (l. 30, misprinted 23) Della Calandra, (l. 36) Della Bubbola et (l. 51) Della Caccia col Bracco a rete. Jean-Pierre Olina, ornithologue, était né vers la fin du XVIe siècle à Orta, dans le Novarese. Ayant pris ses degrés en droit, il s’établit à Rome, où il exerçait la profession d’avocat. Joignant au goût de l’histoire naturelle celui de la musique, il employa ses loisirs à former une collection d’oiseaux chanteurs, et fit une étude spéciale de leurs mœurs et de leurs habitudes. Des observations qu’une longue expérience l’avait mis à portée de recueillir, il composa l’ouvrage intitulé Uccelliera, overo discorso della natura e proprieta di diversi uccelli, e in particolare di que che cantano, Rome, 1622, in-4. Cette édition, quoique moins belle que celle de 1684, est recherchée des curieux, parce qu’elle a l’avantage de contenir les premières épreuves des figures gravées par Tempesta et Villamène. L’ouvrage d’Olina renferme des détails intéressants sur les différentes manières de prendre les oiseaux, sur leur éducation, leur nourriture, leurs maladies et le traitement à employer. Il a été refondu par Buchoz dans les ‘Amusements innocents’ contenant le ‘Traité des oiseaux de volière’ et le ‘Parfait oiseleur’, Paris, 1774, in-12. "Chiefly song-birds are represented of the natural size (pp. 1-50), but in addition (pp. 51-81) there are plates of partridge and quail netting; partridge-hawking with the Goshawk; trap to catch a Sparrow-hawk; and illustrations of the mode in which bird-catchers employ the Little Owl (Civetta) and falconers the Eagle Owl (Gufo)." (Harting, Bibliotheca Accipitraria, 278) Bel exemplaire, particulièrement grand de marges (hauteur : 277 mm contre 274 mm pour l’exemplaire Schwerdt) conservé dans sa première reliure en vélin de l’époque.
De Rerum Natura iuxta propria principia, Liber Primus, & Secundus, denuò editi. - [THE MANIFESTO OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY - DEFINING ""SPACE"" FOR THE FIRST TIME PROPER]
Napoli, Apud Iosephum Cacchium, 1570. 4to. Contemporary limp vellum with handwritten title to spine. Remains of old paper-labels to top and bottom of spine. Spine with loss of ab. 3x2 cm. of vellum to middle, not affecting the book block, which is sound and fine underneath. Some soiling to binding, but all in all fine and unrestored, albeit a bit loose. Some brownspotting to title-page (not heavy), otherwise just a bit of scattered brownspotting. All in all internally very nice and clean, and with good, wide margins. Old owner's name (Juliani Riccii) to front free end-paper and title-page, which also has his inventory number in neat hand: ""no/ 634""). Telesio's woodcut title-device (a beatiful naked woman, all alone, far from the troubles of the world, illuminated by the sun, surrounded by a border carrying the saying in Greek: ""mona moi fila"" - presumably depicting the goddess of Truth), and numerous lovely, illustrated woodcut initials throughout. 95 ff.
The rare and important first edition thus, being the much enlarged (by treatises on specific questions of natural philosophy) and revised second edition and the first edition under the canonical title ""De Rerum Natura"" (clearly referring to Lucretius's great work), of Telesio's revolutionizing main work, which established a new kind of natural philosophy and earned him the reputation as ""the first of the moderns"" (Francis Bacon). The work is a manifesto for natural philosophy emancipated from peripatetic rationalism, expressed clearly in the subtitle to the first book of the work: ""the structure of the world and the nature and magnitude of bodies contained in itare not to be sought from reason, as the ancients did"" they must be perceived from sensation and treated as being things themselves."" (translation of the Latin of the present work, p. 2). ""Taken as a whole, the book is a frontal assault on the foundations of Peripatetic philosophy accompanied by a proposal for replacing Aristotelianism with a system more faithful to nature and experience."" (Copenhaver & Schmitt, p. 311). Telesio's ""De Rerum Natuna"" constitutes one of the first serious attempts to replace Aristotle's natural philosophy, and his seminal, novel theory of space and time anticipates Newton's absolute time and absolute space. It furthermore even seems that it is in the present work that the word ""space"" (""spatium"") is used for the first time to determine what we now mean by space - thus Telesio has here created an entirely new terminology for one of the single most important phenomenons within physics, astronomy, philosophy, etc., giving to it a terminological precision that is unprecedented and which has influenced the entire history of science and philosophy. ""[i]n some of his characteristoc theories, Telesio appears as a direct or indirect forerunner of Newton and Locke."" (Kristeller, Eight Philosophers, p. 107). ""Bernardino Telesio (1509-1588) belongs to a group of independent philosophers of the late Renaissance who left the universities in order to develop philosophical and scientific ideas beyond the restrictions of the Aristotelian-scholastic tradition. Authors in the early modern period referred to these philosophers as 'novateurs' and'modern'. In contrast to his successors Patrizzi and Campanella, Telesio was a fervent critic of metaphysics and insisted on a purely empiricist approach in natural philosophy-he thus became a forerunner of early modern empiricism. He had a remarkable influence on Tommaso Campanella, Giordano Bruno, Pierre Gassendi, Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes and authors of the clandestine Enlightenment like Guillaume Lamy and Giulio Cesare Vanini."" (SEP).Telesio was born in Cosenza ""and in a sense he opens the long line of philosophers through which the South of Italy has asserted its Greek heritage, a line that links him with Bruno and Campanella, with Vico in the eighteenth century, and with Croce and Gentile in our own time."" (Kristeller, Eight Philosophers, p. 97). He was educated by his uncle, the humanist Antonio Telesio, in Milan and Rome, and he studied philosophy and mathematics at the university of Padua, where he got his doctorate in 1535. He had a great respect for the famous Aristotelian Vicenzo Maggi, with whom he discussed his magnum opus, obtaining his approval before publishing the seminal second version of it in 1570. He was closely connected not only with Maggi, but also with the other leaders of the most intelligent and official Aristotelianism of his age. But Telesio opposes the Aristotelianism of both his own and earlier times, claiming that they all erected arbitrary systems that consisted of a strange mixture of reason and experience. They created their systems without consulting nature, and thus they merely obtained arbitrary ideas of the world. What separates Telesio and his contemporaries from the great Renaissance thinkers that had gone ahead is not merely the passing of a few decades, but the emergence of a completely different intellectual atmosphere. ""The tradition of medieval thought, which was still felt very strongly in the fifteenth century and even at the beginning of the sixteenth, began to recede into the more distant background, and it was now the tbroad thought and learning of the early Renaissance itself which constituted the tradition by which the new generations of thinkers were shaped, and against which their immediate reactions were directed."" (Kristeller, Eight Philosophers, p. 91). Telesio belongs to a group of thinkers that we call the Renaissance philosophers of nature. They are considered a group by themselves, different from the humanists, Platonists, and Aristotelians that we usually group other Renaissance thinkers into. What distinguished these philosophers of nature, however, was not a different subject matter from that of the Aristotelians and the Platonists (of both contemporary and earlier times), but their clear claim to explore the principles of nature in an original and independent way, tearing themselves loose of an established tradition and authority that kept them in binds. They formulated novel theories andfreed themselves from the ancient philosophical authorities, especially Aristotle, who had dominated philosophical speculation, not least natural philosophy, for centuries. Telesio, of course, did not stand alone in this group of bold, original thinkers that we call the Renaissance philosophers of nature, and whose quest it was to make new discoveries and to attain knowledge unaccessible to the ancients, it also included for instance Fracastoro, Cardano, Paracelsus, and Bruno. But Telesio in particular protrudes, as his thought is distinguished by such clarity and coherence, and his ideas anticipate important aspects of later philosophy and science. His magnum opus, the extremely influential ""De Rerum Natura"", is that which by far best expresses his novel thoughts and that which most profoundly influenced the thought, philosophy, and science of the cnturies to come. ""[b]y 1547 his ideas seem to have been in public circulation, and within a few years he was at work on his first treatise ""On the Nature of Things According to Their Own Principles"", one of the more incisisve titles in Renaissance philosophy and a clear allusion to Lucretius. [...] Pressed by his followers, he published the original two book version of ""De rerum natura"" [the title of this being ""De Natura iuxta propria principia liber""] in 1563 [recte: 1565], having previously testing the soundness of his arguments in conversations with Vincenzo Maggi, a noted Paduan Peripatetic. Another edition followed in 1570" in 1575 Antonio Persio gave public lectures on the Telesian system in Venice, Padua, Bologna, and the south" and in 1586 appeared the definitive expansion to nine books. The author died two years later in Cosenza."" (Copenhaver & Schmitt, p. 310). In the preface to the work, Telesio rejects Aristotle's doctrine as being in conflict with the senses, with itself, and with the Scriptures, and he claims that his own doctrine is free from these defects. As we have seen above, in the introduction, or sub-title to the first book, he furthermore insists that unlike his predecessors, he has followed nothing but sense perception and nature. He then proceeds to expound the principles of his natural philosophy, positing heat and cold as the two active principles of all things, and matter as a third, passive, principle. Having developed and applied these principles, he concludes the first work with a very interesting treatment of space and time. After having set forth his own position, he examines and refutes the views of earlier philosophers, expecially those of Aristotle, whom he considers superior to all others. ""So far as Telesio's relation to Aristotle is concerned, we must admit that he shows considerable independence, both in his own theories and in his detailed criticism of Aristotle's views, and this independence is more valuable since it is based not on ignorance, but on a thorough knowledge of the Aristotelian writings, and is accompanied by a genuine respect for the relative merits of Aristotelianism."" (Eight Philosophers, pp. 101-2). The only sources apart from Aristotle that Telesio quotes at length are medical, i.e. Hippocrates and Galen, from which he got his notions of human physioglogy. He does, however, draw upon other sources, borrowing notions, though not quotiong them (e.g. Fracastoco, the Epicureans, the Stoics, the Neoplatonists, Ficino). ""These apparent borrowings from various sources should certainly not be overlooked, but one's final impression is that in transforming and combining these ideas, and in formulating some important new ones, Telesio was remarkably original. In his cosmology, the role assigned to heat, cold, and matter is chiefly of historical interest, since it is one of the first serious attempts to replace Aristotle's natual philosophy. We may give him credit, too, for apparently doing away with the sharp disinction between celestial and terrestrial phenomena, which was one of the chief weaknesses of the Aristotelian system. Of greater significance are his theories of the void, and of space and time. His assertion of an empty space was in a sense a return to the position of the ancient atomoists, which Aristotle had tried to refute"" this position must have been known to Telesio, from Lucretius and also from Aristotle himself, but the evidence on which he based himself was partly new and, so to speak, experimental.Still more important is his theory of space and time. Whereas Aristotle had defined time as the number or measure of motion, thus making it dependent on motion, Telesio regards time as independent of, and prior to, motion, like an empty spectacle. He thus moves a long step away from Aristotle in the direction of Newton's absolute time. In the case of space, the change in conception is even more interesting. The Greek term ""Topos"", which we often translate as space has the primary meaning of place, and Aristotle's theory that the ""topos"" of the contained body is the limit or border of its containing body makes much better sense when we translate ""topos"" as place rather than space. Telesio seems to be aware of this ambiguity, for he uses not only the term ""locus"", which had been the standard Latin translation of Aristotle's ""topos"", but also ""spatium"", which is much more appropriate for his notion of an empty space in which all bodies are contained. Thus he again moves away from Aristotle in the direction of Newton's absolute space"" but, more than this, I am tempted to believe that it was Telesio himself who gave terminological precision to the word ""spatium"" (space) and substituted it for ""locus"", a usage for which I do not know any earlier clear instances"". (Kristeller, Eight Philosophers, pp. 103-4).Telesio's theories and entire world-view proved to be extremely influential, and his is considered a forerunner - directly as well as indirectly - of not only Newton and Locke, but also Descartes and Bacon, and a strong direct influence on Bruno, Campanella, and Patrizi. ""Telesio dedicated his whole life to establishing a new kind of natural philosophy, which can be described as an early defense of empiricism bound together with a rigorous criticism of Aristotelian natural philosophy and Galenic physiology. Telesio blamed both Aristotle and Galen for relying on elaborate reasoning rather than sense perception and empirical research. His fervent attacks against the greatest authorities of the Western philosophical and medical traditions led Francis Bacon to speak of him as ""the first of the moderns"" (Opera omnia vol. III, 1963, p. 114). He was perhaps the most strident critic of metaphysics in late Renaissance times. It was obviously due to his excellent relationships with popes and clerics that he was not persecuted and was able during his own lifetime to publish his rather heterodox writings, which went on the index shortly after his death."" (SEP)""Giordano Bruno speaks of the ""giudiciosissimo Telesio"" in the third dialog of ""De la causa"", whilst Francis Bacon based his own speculative philosophy of nature on a blend of Telesian and Paracelsian conceptions (Giachetti Assenza 1980" Rees 1977 1984). Thomas Hobbes followed Telesio in the rejection of species (Schuhmann 1990" Leijenhorst 1998, p. 116ff.) The physiology of René Descartes in ""De homine"" shows close similarities to Telesio's physiological theories as they are presented in ""De natura rerum"" (Hatfield 1992). Telesio also had some influence on Gassendi and on libertine thinkers (Bianchi 1992)."" (SEP)""His sense of empirical science, which included progressive ideas on space, vacuum, and other physical topics, grew out of a disenchanted world-view remarkable for its hard-headed clarity."" (Copenhaver & Schmitt, p. 314). Adams: T:292"" Thorndyke: VI:370-71.Paul Oskar Kristeller: ""Eight Philosophers of the Italian Renaissance"", 1964"" ""Renaissance Thought and its Sources"", 1979.Eugenio Garin: ""Italian Humanism. Philosophy and Civic Life in the Renaissance, 1965Copenhaver & Schimtt: ""Renaissance Philosophy"", 1992. Ernst Cassirer: ""Individuum und Kosmos in der Philosophie der renaissance"", 1927.D.S.B. XIII:277-80. (""Telesio also introduced concepts of space and time that anticipated the absolute space and time of Newtonian physics"").
LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA 1978, DALLA NATURA ALL'ARTE, DALL'ARTE ALLA NATURA, CATALOGO GENERALE
La Biennale di Venezia. 1978. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. légèrement pliée, Dos plié, Intérieur frais. 254 pages. Illustré de nombreuses photos en noir et blanc et en couleur, dans et hors texte. Texte sur plusieurs colonnes. Annotations en page de titre (ex-libris). Accompagné de nombreux documents sur le même sujet.. . . A l'italienne. Classification Dewey : 450-Italien, roumain, rhéto-romain
Sei stazioni per artenatura, La natura dell'arte. Dalla natura all'arte, dall'arte alla natura (Austria - Venezuela). L'immagine provocata. Arte e cinema. Gruppo feminista 'Immagine'... Classification Dewey : 450-Italien, roumain, rhéto-romain
Lucrèce (en latin Titus Lucretius Carus) - Poète & philosophe latin du Ier siècle av. J.-C., (peut-être 98-55), auteur d'un seul livre inachevé, le De rerum natura (De la nature des choses, quon traduit le plus souvent par De la nature), un long poème passionné qui décrit le monde selon les principes d'Épicure.Cest essentiellement grâce à lui que nous connaissons l'une des plus importantes écoles philosophiques de l'Antiquité, l'épicurisme, car des ouvrages dÉpicure, qui fut beaucoup lu et célébré dans toute lAntiquité tardive, il ne reste pratiquement rien, sauf trois lettres et quelques sentences.Si Lucrèce expose fidèlement la doctrine de son maître, il met à la défendre une âpreté nouvelle, une sombre ardeur. « On entend dans son vers les spectres qui s'appellent» dit Hugo. Son tempérament angoissé et passionné est presque à lopposé de celui du philosophe grec. Et il vit une époque troublée par les guerres civiles et les proscriptions (massacres de Marius, proscriptions de Sylla, révolte de Spartacus, conjuration de Catilina). De là, les pages sombres du De rerum natura sur la mort, le dégoût de la vie, la peste dAthènes, de là aussi sa passion anti-religieuse qui sen prend avec acharnement aux dieux, aux cultes et aux prêtres, passion que lon ne retrouve pas dans les textes conservés dÉpicure, même si celui-ci critique la superstition et même la religion populaire. Contre les positions du monde clérical, il propose de se soustraire aux craintes induites par la sphère religieuse, à laquelle il oppose la dimension rationnelle. Ainsi, il explique de façon matérielle les objets et le vivant, qui prennent forme via des combinaisons d'atomes. Surtout Lucrèce unit à la science épicurienne, souvent difficile, la douceur et la dimension visionnaire de la poésie.( Wikipédia)
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