MARCOLINI DA FORLI, Francesco. Le Ingeniose Sorti composte per Francesco Marcolini da Forli intitulate Giardino di Pensieri ... [Venice, 1550 ?].
4o (295 x 205 mm). Woodcut title-page, numerous woodcuts throughout. (Quire A extensivle repaired at margins, with some text loss, repaired holes on quire A with some text loss, repaired in manuscript.) Later vellum-backed boards (some minor rubbing along edges, joints starting).
Second edition. Marcolini's book resolves fifty questions, thirteen relating to men, thirteen to women, and the remaining twenty-four to both sexes. Questions are answered by a kind of oracular triplet to which the reader is directed by drawing one or two cards. This work evidences that divination using cards was used in Italy in the sixteenth century.
MARCOLINI DA FORLI, Francesco. Le Ingeniose Sorti composte per Francesco Marcolini da Forli intitulate Giardino di Pensieri ... [Venice, 1550 ?].
4o (295 x 205 mm). Woodcut title-page, numerous woodcuts throughout. (Quire A extensivle repaired at margins, with some text loss, repaired holes on quire A with some text loss, repaired in manuscript.) Later vellum-backed boards (some minor rubbing along edges, joints starting).
Second edition. Marcolini's book resolves fifty questions, thirteen relating to men, thirteen to women, and the remaining twenty-four to both sexes. Questions are answered by a kind of oracular triplet to which the reader is directed by drawing one or two cards. This work evidences that divination using cards was used in Italy in the sixteenth century.
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