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MAGAGNATI, Girolamo (1565-1618/19). Meditazione poetica sopra i pianeti Medicei. Venice: Heirs of Altobello Salicato, 1610.
4° (220 x 155mm). 5-line woodcut opening initial and final tailpiece. (Without final [?]blank A6.) Modern cartone alla rustica.
A RARE POEM INSPIRED BY GALILEO'S DISCOVERY OF THE SATELLITES OF JUPITER. A student of chemistry, Magagnati specialised in the manufacture of coloured glass, but verse making was his passion. This 9-page panegyric praises the observations which Gaileo made with his improved telescope between December 1609 and January 1610, and his dramatic discovery of the four satellites of Jupiter, initially named after Cosimo II de' Medici, the poem's dedicatee, but then called the Medicean stars or planets in honour of all four Medici brothers. It is the more valued because of the friendship subsisting between scientist and poet. This began between 1592 and 1593, probably during the former’s stay at Padua. They enjoyed an active correspondence of over ten years between 1607 and 1618 (see Dizionario biografico degli Italiani, vol. 67, 2006). FIRST EDITION. Though SBN states that the grand ducal arms are on the title-page, the title of this copy is without the arms. Two copies only are located at the Bib. nationale centrale, Florence, and the Bib. nazionale Marciana, Venice. No sale recorded in ABPC/RBH. Not in BL/STC, Gamba or Vinciana.
4° (220 x 155mm). 5-line woodcut opening initial and final tailpiece. (Without final [?]blank A6.) Modern cartone alla rustica.
A RARE POEM INSPIRED BY GALILEO'S DISCOVERY OF THE SATELLITES OF JUPITER. A student of chemistry, Magagnati specialised in the manufacture of coloured glass, but verse making was his passion. This 9-page panegyric praises the observations which Gaileo made with his improved telescope between December 1609 and January 1610, and his dramatic discovery of the four satellites of Jupiter, initially named after Cosimo II de' Medici, the poem's dedicatee, but then called the Medicean stars or planets in honour of all four Medici brothers. It is the more valued because of the friendship subsisting between scientist and poet. This began between 1592 and 1593, probably during the former’s stay at Padua. They enjoyed an active correspondence of over ten years between 1607 and 1618 (see Dizionario biografico degli Italiani, vol. 67, 2006). FIRST EDITION. Though SBN states that the grand ducal arms are on the title-page, the title of this copy is without the arms. Two copies only are located at the Bib. nationale centrale, Florence, and the Bib. nazionale Marciana, Venice. No sale recorded in ABPC/RBH. Not in BL/STC, Gamba or Vinciana.
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