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Curioso Zibaldone di Ioannis Ravisii Textoris
Venice heirs of Lucantonio Giunta; 1541
Sixteenth-century edition of the famous and highly unusual collection of quotations, facts and incidents, anecdotes, and famous people by the renowned French Renaissance humanist.
The work includes lists of various topics, historical figures who committed suicide, various cases of death (parricides, drownings, those killed by wild boars, crucified, executed, poisoned), various illnesses, famous doctors and pharmacists, loves of gods and men (lovers, effeminates, transvestites, incestuous persons, adulterers, loved by animals), fortune tellers, miracles, poisons, astrologers, avaricious inventors, gluttons, and drunkards.
Original limp vellum binding. Hand drawing on the cover.
Printer's device engraved on the title page and repeated on the colophon.
One page has been crossed out in pen, perhaps for censorship reasons. Lacks ties.
7 pages, 295 lvs.
Some wear of binding, very good interior
size 4 1/2 by 6"
Text in Latin
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Jean Tixier de Ravisi (c. 1470–1542) was a French Renaissance humanist scholar and professor of rhetoric. He was born in Ravisi, which is near the commune of Saint-Saulge in the central province of Nivernais.
His works, which are mostly on the topic of education, were widely accepted and employed by French academia. Tixier eventually adopted the Latinised name Johannes Textor Ravisius, Nivernensis.
Tixier studied humanities at the College of Navarre. When he graduated, he accepted a position in the college's rhetoric department; there he impressed faculty and students alike. In 1520, he accepted a position as rector of the University of Paris.
He held the position until 1525, succeeded by William Manderstown.
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