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BENVENUTO (Josepho)/ Benvenuti (Giuseppe).: - De Lucensium Thermarum Sale Tractatus.
Lucae Excudebat Josph Salani, Prassidum Adprobatione, 1758. 8vo, 172 x 118, pp. 11 [12 blank], 46. [BOUND WITH (as usual):] Del Sale delle Acque Termali di Lucca trattato di Giuseppe Benvenuti. Dott di Med. Membro della Societą Imperiale di Germania, e della Reale di Gottinga. Con una Lettera in cui si descrivono le Infermitą nelle quali convengono le medesime Acque. In Lucca MDCCLVIII. Dalle Stampe di Giuseppe Salani [1758]. 8vo, pp. xiv [xv - xvi blank], 49 [50 blank, 51 drop-title, 52 blank], 53 -104, including index, contemporary vellum, red leather label; binding a little soiled but a very good copy. The works of the Italian physician Giuseppe Benvenuti (1723-1810) show a wide-ranging interest in various cures for various human afflictions, as in these volumes, which affirm the therapeutic powers of the thermal salty waters of Lucca in the north of Tuscany. Benvenuti was born in Lucca, and later practised there as a surgeon and physician. The thermal water at Bagni di Lucca has been considered one of the most important sources of well-being in the Tuscan spa complex; in fact, these waters flow naturally at particularly high temperatures, which are around 45° and 54°. In eighteenth-century Italy, Benvenuti attained a reputation as one of the primary experts on the health benefits and qualities of the various spa waters of the age, being awarded a prize for a later dissertation on waters in 1769 by the Academy of Ravenna, who duly elected him a member in recognition of his aqueous expertise. Benvenuti's work has been known to practitioners and historians in the British Isles, too, for centuries, with Robert Watt, a physician himself as well as tireless bibliographer, referring to Benvenuti as the "celebrated Italian physician" (Bibliotheca Britannica, 1824, 1:100-101). The number of copies present in these isles have remained few, however. For De Lucensium Thermarum Sale Tractatus (1758), COPAC traces three copies: British Library, Royal Society, and Wellcome. COPAC locates no editions from other years. For Del Sale delle Acque Termali (1758), COPAC traces three copies in the same libraries: British Library, Royal Society, and Wellcome. COPAC locates no editions from other years. Both works are also scarce in commerce. The family of Giacomo Puccin was for many years a musical dynasty that flourished in Lucca. Although I am not a great fan of all of Puccini's operas, I should record that that the sublimely healthful waters of Lucca might have played some part in keeping Puccini and his family healthy, enabling him to compose the operas that most opera houses can regularly depend upon to fill seats. Beauvais de Preau, Nuovo Dizionario Storico (1831), 1:425. Michaud, Biographie universelle (1870), 3:678. Watt, Bibliotheca Britannica, 1824, 1:100-101.
GBP 660.00 [Appr.: EURO 776 US$ 844.23 | JP„ 131578] Booknumber: 10343
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