Filicaia, Vincenzo de (1642-1707)

Mogarineïdes seu de yasmino Indico, vulgo Mogarino cordis dicto, Odae XIV. His accesserunt ad Joannem Freind medicum Anglum et ad Franciscum Manning Anglum, Odae duae. [Followed by] Odae ad proceres Anglos. In the last section, though addressed 'Ad proceres Anglos', three out of the four poems are addressed to 'Henricus de Nova Villa', i.e. Sir Henry Newton [1651-1715], who was Envoy Extraordinary to Florence from 1704-1709. The last ode is addressed to John Lord Somers [1651-1716], who was Lord Chancellor of England in 1697.

c. 1705

1 volume 5 ll. (first 3 bl.). + 59 pp. + 14 ll. (last bl.). 4to. 221/2 × 17 cm. Original calf binding worn. The title-page is slightly defective, and mounted. Title within a pen-drawn border.

Purchased 1929.

The author was a distinguished poet and lawyer of Pisa, and a senator of that city in 1763. He was also a member of both the Academia degli Arcadi and of the Academia della Crusca.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

Sold at Sotheby's [Philipps Sale] 16/6/1908, Lot 281.