Lezioni dalla crisi.

Venezia, Marsilio Ed. 1994, cm.15,5x21,5, pp.485, 81 tavv.bn.e col.ft. brossura copertina figurata a colori. Coll.Ricerche.

With an Alphabeticall Table of all the Vertues of each Herb and Simple. New York, Routledge 2003, cm.15,5x23,5, pp.XXII,332, legatura ed.in tutta tela. Leonard Sowerby's self-healing manual for women, The Ladies' Dispensatory, emerged in England in 1652 amidst an abundance of medical self-help books for the lay citizen. Written for both the common patient and the amateur health provider, these manuals of home remedies provided their readers with a variety of potential solutions to common ailments or disease. Sowerby's Dispensatory was written primarily for curing women's health problems, and in that regard, focuses heavily on gynecologic problems (the Dispensatory includes numerous preparations for inducing abortion), breast complaints, personal hygiene and cosmetic applications. Balaban, Erlen and Siderits have resurrected Sowerby's original manuscript and have provided both historical and medical explanation of its uses and usefulness. From a common garlic remedy to 'fortify the brain' to 'a hog's heel, burned to powder' for easing colic, The Ladies' Dispensatory is a delightfully unique look at health and hygiene in the seventeenth century. Also inlcludes nine maps.

Firenze, Olschki Ed. 2009, cm 17 x 24, xxii-426 pp. Biblioteca Mantovana, 8. Amico di Mantegna e figura di spicco nella Mantova di Ludovico III, Filippo Nuvoloni intreccia nel suo Dyalogo per Francesco Gonzaga il modello dialogico della Deifira di Alberti e quello ritrattistico delle Imagines di Luciano, offrendo un manifesto della nuova letteratura cortigiana. La passione che affligge il principe (Archophilo), rivelata al suo più fidato amico (Polysopho), trova rimedio nel ritratto favoloso di Archigynia: regina delle donne e guida iniziatica verso il regno del vero amore. / Andrea Mantegna’s friend and leading figure at the court of Ludovico Gonzaga, Filippo Nuvoloni combines in his Dyalogo the dialogic model of Alberti’s Deifira and the eulogistic portrait of Lucian’s Imagines, providing a startling manifesto of courtly poetry. Through an aristocratic conversation with his faithful tutor (Polysopho), the prince of lovers (Archophilo) finds a remedy against lovesickness in the fabulous portrait of Archigynia: queen of women and initiatory guide to the realm of true love.

A cura di Mariangela Regogliosi. Firenze, Polistampa 2009, cm.17x24, pp.632, legatura editoriale, sopracoperta figurata. Coll.Edizione Nazionale delle Opere di Lorenzo Valla. Strumenti,1.