Codice albumGBB-F-006898

Codice inventarioGBB-F-006898-0000

1700 ca, ITALY: Portrait of italian mathematician and medicine Doctor ALESSANDRO MARCHETTI (1633 1714). Engraving by A. Luciani. In 1669 Marchetti completed the first known Italian vernacular translation of Lucretius' Epicurean epic poem" De Rerum Natura". He was denied permission to publish his translation, entitled" Della Natura delle Cose", but it circulated widely in manuscript form before its first printing in 1717

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