CONTARINI (Gasparo)

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CONTARINI (Gasparo)
De elementis & eorum mixtionibus libri quinque. Scipionis Capitum de principiis rerum poema. Paris, Nicolas Le Riche, 1548. - Compendium. Paris, Guillaume Le Noir, 1556. In-8, overlapping parchment, partly tinted slices (Binding of the period). Ferguson, t. I, pp. 176-177 (for the De elementis). First editions of these two physicophilosophical works by Gasparo Contarini (1483-1542), a Venetian humanist and magistrate who was ambassador of the Serenissima to Charles-Quint. In De Elementis, which he composed in five books between 1530 and 1535, the author presents the theses of Aristotle and Galen and criticizes divinatory astrology, reproaching him for deducing all events from the movements of celestial bodies and subjecting them to necessity (cf. Balsamo, De Dante à Chiabrera..., t. I, n°138). This work is followed by Scipione Capece's De principiis rerum (1480-1551), an encyclopedic poem dedicated to Pope Paul III and imitated by Lucretia's De rerum natura: Capece examines the epicurean theories of atomism, causality and eternity of matter, to refute them by trying to reconcile natural reasons and revealed truth. His poem is a founding text of Renaissance naturalist philosophy (Balsamo, op. cit.). The copy has been replaced in its original binding, guards have been added at the beginning and end of the volume. Moistening at the last four notebooks.
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