BACCI, Andrea (1524-1600). De naturali vinorum historia de v...
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BACCI, Andrea (1524-1600). De naturali vinorum historia de vinis Italiae, et de conviviis antiquorum libri septem. Rome: Niccolò Muzi, 1596 [colophon: 1597].
First edition of one of the most important Renaissance treatises on the history of wine, and the first major attempt at a systematic study of European oenology. Physician to Pope Sixtus V, as well as a distinguished scholar and naturalist, Andrea Bacci approaches wine from medical, historical and antiquarian perspectives, examining its qualities, methods of production and therapeutic properties. Particular attention is devoted to the wines of the Italian peninsula, which Bacci compares with those of France, Spain, Germany, Greece and other European regions, tracing their historical origins, methods of vinification and place within the food and drinking cultures of both the ancient and modern worlds. Especially noteworthy are the chapters devoted to the banquets of antiquity (convivia), in which Bacci reconstructs the customs, rituals and practices surrounding the consumption of wine among the Greeks and Romans, combining direct observation with an exceptionally rich body of classical sources.
Folio (305 × 210 mm). Engraved architectural title-page incorporating a portrait of the author and the arms of the Colonna family; large full-page engraved plate depicting a wine-making apparatus; woodcut initials and headpieces; errata at end (light foxing). 17th-century full vellum, gilt-lettered spine label, blue edges (losses to the covers). (1)
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BACCI, Andrea (1524-1600). De naturali vinorum historia de vinis Italiae, et de conviviis antiquorum libri septem. Rome: Niccolò Muzi, 1596 [colophon: 1597].
First edition of one of the most important Renaissance treatises on the history of wine, and the first major attempt at a systematic study of European oenology. Physician to Pope Sixtus V, as well as a distinguished scholar and naturalist, Andrea Bacci approaches wine from medical, historical and antiquarian perspectives, examining its qualities, methods of production and therapeutic properties. Particular attention is devoted to the wines of the Italian peninsula, which Bacci compares with those of France, Spain, Germany, Greece and other European regions, tracing their historical origins, methods of vinification and place within the food and drinking cultures of both the ancient and modern worlds. Especially noteworthy are the chapters devoted to the banquets of antiquity (convivia), in which Bacci reconstructs the customs, rituals and practices surrounding the consumption of wine among the Greeks and Romans, combining direct observation with an exceptionally rich body of classical sources.
Folio (305 × 210 mm). Engraved architectural title-page incorporating a portrait of the author and the arms of the Colonna family; large full-page engraved plate depicting a wine-making apparatus; woodcut initials and headpieces; errata at end (light foxing). 17th-century full vellum, gilt-lettered spine label, blue edges (losses to the covers). (1)
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