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Aboca Museum Edizioni
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| Aboca Museum Edizioni publishes historical and art books about medicinal herbs and their use in therapy. The production has been recently focused on the re-publishing of masterpieces of illustrious figures of Italian Renaissance: Piero della Francesca and Luca Pacioli, both from Sansepolcro, in Tuscany, where the company is established. |
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Luca Pacioli’s Chess Renaissance evolution of a mathematical game
By D. D’Elia, D. Contin, A. Bartoli Langeli, E. Mattesini, A. Sanvito
This book resulted from the discovery of a chess treatise, manuscript in written vernacular around 1500, which contains matches played in the medieval style and others in accordance with the new a la rabiosa technique.
The book is the contributions of leading experts in the chess-playing and palaeographic – linguistic areas who discuss complex subjects such as the historic profile of chess, the phases of recovery, the transcription of the manuscript, the attribution of authorship and the chess technique used by Pacioli.
Size 24 x 28.5 cm - 278 pages. |
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Hortus Eystettensis Commentarium
By K. W. Littger, A. Menghini, W. D. Muller Jahncke, D. Contin, W. Dressendorfer
A the critical essay published in order to better understand the facsimile printing of the herbarium HORTUS EYSTETTENSIS by Basilius Besler, Numberg 1613.
This famous herbarium in three imperial folio volumes, containing 367 chalcographic plates representing more than 1084 flowering plants, is one of the better well maintained herbarium up today. The essay written in Italian, English and German, contains useful information for understanding the work both under a scientific-botanical, artistic and biographical point of view.
Size 29 x 38 cm - 286 pages. |
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