(1586). DOLCE (Lodovico). DIALOGO, NEL QUALE SI RAGIONA DEL - Lot 395

(1586). DOLCE (Lodovico). DIALOGO, NEL QUALE SI RAGIONA DEL MODO ACCRESCERE E CONSERVAR LA MEMORIA. Venice, Heredi di Marchio Sessa, 1586. In-8 of 118-[1] leaves, soft ivory vellum overlay (period binding). Important and curious treatise on the preservation of memory, decorated with 23 remarkable full-page and in-text woodcuts (a city with a library, the philosophical tree, a human head with the position of the mental faculties, a female allegory of grammar, etc.). The work, written in dialogue on the model of Cicero, is a translation, with additions, of Johannes Romberch's treatise published in 1520. Label of Cécile Eluard on the back cover (no. 9 in the 1992 cat.). (Brunet II, 789) (Mortimer, Italian 157, ed. 1562) (USTC 827147).