Seven copies of Hortorum libri triginta 1560 are held in Italian libraries, the author having been identified with Benoit de Court, the Lyon bibliophile and humanist. I could not find reference to an italian translation though.
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From: exlibris@library.berkeley.edu
[mailto:exlibris@library.berkeley.edu]On Behalf Of Martin Davies
Sent: 15 June 2005 20:23 PM
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Subject: [EXLIBRIS:30293] Re: Libro degli Orti by Benedetto Curtio
Sinforiano
Presumably this from the BL catalogue is a translation of the Italian or
vice versa -- I suppose Sinforiano is a place name epithet of some sort.
CURTIUS, Benedictus.
Title Hortorum libri triginta ... In quibus continetur arborum
historia, partim ex probatissimis quibusïEURoe autoribus, partim ex ipsius
autoris obseruatione collecta.
Publisher/year pp. 683. Excudebat Joannes Tornæsius: Lugduni, 1560.
Physical descr. fol.
martin davies
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Subject: [EXLIBRIS:30290] Libro degli Orti by Benedetto Curtio Sinforiano
I have a query from a researcher trying to track down a reference to a Libri
degli Orti by a Benedetto Curtio Sinforiano which is referred to in relation
to the portrayal of a plant on the whell of a chariot which is part of an
Italian fountain. The context is involved with identifying whether the plant
is a
pine or some other conifer and involves a mythological reference to the
goddess(?) Piti. The work he is translating is a fifteenth or sixteenth
century
Italian work. Can any of you identify the work in question and the
standardized
name of the author? Any help would be much appreciated.
Stanley H. Johnston, Jr., Ph.D., M.S.L.S.
Curator of Rare Books
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