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Item Number: 107198
Title: De Sphaera : Commentario al'edizione in facsimile del codice miniato a.x.2.14=lat. 209 della Biblioteca Estense Universitaria di Modena
Author: Venturi, Gianni
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9788886251877
Description: Modena: Il Bulino, 2010. 32cm., hardcover, 174pp. illus., most in color. The De Sphaera is unanimously regarded as the most beautiful astrological book of the Italian Renaissance. It was illuminated by a refined artist of the Lombard school (thought to be Cristoforo de Predis) for the Milan court and reached the Estense in Ferrara via the frequent artistic and cultural exchanges between them and the Sforza. The codex sums up, with an unparalleled elegance, the astrological knowledge of its time and testifies the renewed authority, the reputation enjoyed by faith in the stars – a fashion and a culture at the same time – in the most powerful and refined courts. The De Sphaera adds its personal, superlative touch – with the splendour of its illuminated pages and the rhyming verses of its horoscopes – to a field, that of planet and zodiac iconography, which was already successful. (Il giardino delle Esperidi, 18)
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