Hippocratis Coi medicorum omnium facile principis Opera. Quibus addidimus commentaria Ioan. Marinelli in quibus morbi omnes, eorumque causae, signa ac curationes, que in libris Hisp. dispersim scribuntur, una copulantur, atque tractantur. Deinde voces, ac loca in Hisp. libris obscura, & difficillia ex Galeni sententia declarantur. Postea sententiae plurimae, quae ab Hip. dignitate ob translationes perperam factas alienae uidentur; antiquorum autoritate sunt correctae. Praeterea multa, quae saepe leguntur in eiusdem libris, quae a scipsis alios dissentire videntur, ea conciliata sunt. Ac tandem index omnium copiosissimus. Nova et argumenta in singulos libros per Ioan. Culman. Geppingen. sunt addita

Two parts in one volume, folio (323x215 mm). [4], 215, [1]; [2], 140 leaves. Collation: *⁴, A-Nn⁶; a⁴, b-z⁶, Aa⁶. Leaf Nn6 is a blank. Woodcut Valgrisi's device on both title pages, Angelieri's device between the register and the colophon on l. Aa6r, and many decorative woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces. Text in two columns. Faded ownership entries and shelf marks on the title page “Ex Conv.tus St. Caroli Padue Patruum Reformator[um]”, “F44 G n° 63 94:”, and “Adn: R:L: Petri […]”. Contemporary manuscript annotations on the outer margin in the first part of the volume. 18^th-century half-vellum, lettering piece on spine. Some occasional foxing and browning, but a good and fresh copy.

First edition (issue with the date 1575 on both title pages and on the colophon; there are a few extant copies with the date 1574 on the title pages and 1575 on the colophon) of the collected works of Hippocrates with the commentary by Giovanni Marinelli. The first part contains the Latin translation by Janus Cornarius (first published in 1545) of the corpus of Hippocrates' writings, the second part the commentary by Marinelli. The edition is also enriched by the arguments of Johannes Culmann (a doctor from Gepping), first published in 1567.

The biographical data on Giovanni Marinelli, humanist, physician, philosopher, scholar of science and literature, are few and fragmentary. He was probably born in Modena, from where he moved to Venice where, in addition to practicing the art of medicine, he conducts an intense activity as editor and commentator. In 1559 he visited Luigi Anguillara, then director of the botanical garden of Padua, talking with him about the properties of herbs, and in 1561 he edited the latter's Semplici, a botanical work, in which are describes 1540 plants, their medicinal properties, and where they are found. A year later appeared Copia delle parole (‘The Abundance of Words'), dedicated to Alfonso II d'Este, a work on rhetoric and especially on compositional elegance. In 1562 he also published Gli ornamenti delle donne (Venice, 1562), the first Italian work dealing exclusively with cosmetics. In 1563 he published another work in the vernacular addressed to women, Le medicine partenenti alle infermità delle donne, dealing with women's health in view of marriage, pregnancy, and childbirth. In 1565 appeared another lexicographic treatise, Dittionario di tutte le voci italiane. He also wrote a commentary on the rhetoric of Aristotle (1575). A treatise on controlling the plague, De peste (1577) seems to be his last published work (cf. F. Cirilli, Giovanni Marinelli, in: “Dizionario biografico degli italiani”, 70, Rome, 2008, pp. 390-392).

Edit 16, CNCE22543; Choulant, p. 25; Olschki, Choix, 8860; Durling, 2334; Adams, H-575; Wellcome, 3185.

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