IL TESORO DELLA SANITA'
DI CASTOR DURANTE DA GUALDO
MEDICO E CITTADINO ROMANO
NEL QUALE S'INSEGNA IL MODO DI CONSERVAR LA SANITA' E PROLUNGAR LA VITA
ET SI TRATTA
DELLA NATURA DE CIBI
& DE RIMEDI DE MONUMENTI LORO
CON LA TAVOLE DELLE COSE NOTABILI
IN MANTOVA MDLXXXX
APPRESSO FRANCESCO OSANNA STAMPATOR DUCALE
Edition of 1590 of this famous resuming of hygiene and health by Castore Durante son of the jurist Giovanni Durante (1490-1565) from Gualdo Tadino.
The work is a real treaty of health and diet. The author analyzes each element that can bring benefit to the body: air, food, legumes cereals or fruit, recommended food for deseases.
Description of properties of each food: names, quality, choice, benefits, remedies.
At the end a chapter dedicated to wine with the rules of consumption, bad wines, water wines, new wine, old wine, sweet new wine, brusco wine, red and white, artificial, remedies against plague ecc....
In good conditions.
Parchment coeval cover with handwritten title in the spine in fair general conditions lightly worn in the extremities. Lackings in the plates. Binding in good conditions with cracks. Inside pages are in good conditions with foxing. Light dump stains in the edges. In 16. Dim. 15,5x11 cm. Pp. (8)+334.