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Trattato Di Pietro Vettori Delle Lodi Et Della Coltivazione De Gl'Ulivi by Vettori, Pietro, a rare photograph of the 1569 - classics book.
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  • Trattato Di Pietro Vettori Delle Lodi Et Della Coltivazione De Gl'Ulivi by Vettori, Pietro, a rare photograph of the 1569 - classics book.
  • Trattato Di Pietro Vettori Delle Lodi Et Della Coltivazione De Gl'Ulivi by Vettori, Pietro, a rare interior highlight of the 1569 - classics book.
  • Trattato Di Pietro Vettori Delle Lodi Et Della Coltivazione De Gl'Ulivi by Vettori, Pietro, a rare detail of the 1569 - classics book.
  • Trattato Di Pietro Vettori Delle Lodi Et Della Coltivazione De Gl'Ulivi by Vettori, Pietro, a rare fascinating view of the 1569 - classics book.
  • Trattato Di Pietro Vettori Delle Lodi Et Della Coltivazione De Gl'Ulivi by Vettori, Pietro, a rare example from the work of the 1569 - classics book.
  • Trattato Di Pietro Vettori Delle Lodi Et Della Coltivazione De Gl'Ulivi by Vettori, Pietro, a rare photograph of the 1569 - classics book.
  • Trattato Di Pietro Vettori Delle Lodi Et Della Coltivazione De Gl'Ulivi by Vettori, Pietro, a rare view of the 1569 - classics book.
  • Trattato Di Pietro Vettori Delle Lodi Et Della Coltivazione De Gl'Ulivi by Vettori, Pietro, a rare photograph of the 1569 - classics book.
  • Trattato Di Pietro Vettori Delle Lodi Et Della Coltivazione De Gl'Ulivi by Vettori, Pietro, a rare interior highlight of the 1569 - classics book.
  • Trattato Di Pietro Vettori Delle Lodi Et Della Coltivazione De Gl'Ulivi by Vettori, Pietro, a rare detail of the 1569 - classics book.
  • Trattato Di Pietro Vettori Delle Lodi Et Della Coltivazione De Gl'Ulivi by Vettori, Pietro, a rare fascinating view of the 1569 - classics book.
  • Trattato Di Pietro Vettori Delle Lodi Et Della Coltivazione De Gl'Ulivi by Vettori, Pietro, a rare example from the work of the 1569 - classics book.
  • Trattato Di Pietro Vettori Delle Lodi Et Della Coltivazione De Gl'Ulivi by Vettori, Pietro, a rare photograph of the 1569 - classics book.
  • Trattato Di Pietro Vettori Delle Lodi Et Della Coltivazione De Gl'Ulivi by Vettori, Pietro, a rare view of the 1569 - classics book.
Trattato Di Pietro Vettori Delle Lodi Et Della Coltivazione De Gl'Ulivi

A late Renaissance bridge between philology and agronomy in this treatise on olive oil.

Vettori, Pietro

Trattato Di Pietro Vettori Delle Lodi Et Della Coltivazione De Gl'Ulivi

1569, Firenze, Giunti

First edition

$780 USD

Overview

Like many Florentine humanists, Pietro Vettori engaged in practical agriculture, blending classical references (Columella, Varro) with Tuscan practice.
His Trattato delle lodi et della coltivazione de gl’ulivi praises the olive tree and gives practical instructions on cultivation and oil-making. His agricultural writings also anticipate the fusion of literature, natural science, and regional identity that shaped Tuscan food and wine culture. This makes him part of the early canon of Tuscan agronomic literature, alongside Alamanni, Soderini, and later Davanzati.

Inside the book

This Renaissance agronomic treatise, blending classical erudition with hands-on agriculture, is often cited as an early, influential Tuscan text on olive culture and oil, praising the olive and detailing cultivation, harvesting, and pressing practices.
The book kept its popularity across centuries, with editions all the way to the 19th century.

Why La Fenice chose it

An ode to olive oil that marries classical erudition with hands-on agriculture: the “nobil liquore” for vigor of body and spirit, a product of the earth that shaped Tuscan identity, second only to wine.
Condition Report

Pp. [6], 3-89, [1] r.e. (incomplete).

First edition, but incomplete. 18th-century half green calf with marbled boards. The binding originally contained a second volume, now lacking, leaving about half of the inner spine exposed. Attractive printer’s device on the title page; small early ownership note in the lower margin. The collation is complex, since the preliminary leaves are disordered: the title page is followed by two blanks, the verso of the second with a woodcut cartouche. Then two leaves of dedication, themselves incomplete (the first leaf continues a sentence clearly begun earlier). The text proper begins at p. 3 (B ij), again continuing a sentence. Final quire (M) loose. A study copy.

Dimensions (inches): 7.5 z 5 1/4 x 05
About the author

Pietro Vettori (Florence 1499 - 1585), was a major late Renaissance humanist, philologist, and editor of classical texts. He held the chair of Greek and Latin at the Studio Fiorentino (University of Florence) and was close to the Medici court. He is renowned for editing Aristotle and Cicero, and his editions of classical authors (printed by Giunti, Aldine, etc.) were influential across Europe.

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