Platina: On Right Pleasure and Good Health

by Bartolomeo Platina

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"Bartolomeo Sacchi, called Platina, was soldier, schoolmaster, student, papal administrator, prisoner, author, librarian, propagandist, and proto-typical Italian humanist. He wrote On Right Pleasure between 1463 and 1465, apparently for his own enjoyment a"

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This is a facsimile of of a German publication of De Honesta voluptate published in Augsburg in 1542. It is a paper box containing the introduction to the edition (32 pages, paper) and the edition itself LXV bound in leather). I own no 146 but I have no idea how many were printed.

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Volume V.; the first dated cookery book: Venice, L. de Aguila [i.e. Aquila] 1475

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