Dell'uso ed abuso della cioccolata del Dottore Gio: Battista Anfossi romano a sua eccellenza Pier - Vettore Pisani Procurator di S. Marco

Venezia, 1779

“GLI DEI BEVONO AMBROSIA, GLI UOMINI CIOCCOLATA” - “THE GODS DRINK AMBROSIA; MEN DRINK CHOCOLATE” 8vo (198x135 mm). 100 pp. Contemporary plain boards “alla rustica”, inked title on spine. Contemporary ownership entry on front flyleaf “Matteo Zacchiroli”. Bookblock a bit loose. A very good, unsophisticated copy. First edition, second issue, with a reset title-page bearing the Venetian imprint of Francesco Locatelli, reissuing the Rovigo publication of 1775. The earlier issue appeared under the fuller title Dell'uso ed abuso della cioccolata. Dissertazione storico-medica, printed at Rovigo by Gianjacopo Miazzi, and is recorded in the Italian Union Catalogue as SBLE000479. The work had attracted attention outside Italy before its Venetian reissue as it was reviewed in the eighteenth-century learned journal “Gothaische gelehrte Zeitungen”, 1776, volume 5, pp. 282-284. Anfossi identifies himself on the title-page as a Roman physician and addresses the work to Pier-Vettore Pisani, Procurator of St Mark. The original subtitle, dissertazione storico-medica, accurately indicates the conjunction of historical inquiry and medical argument. Rather than treating chocolate solely as a fashionable indulgence, Anfossi considers it a substance whose reputation must be examined through the literature concerning its origins, preparation, and effects. Anfossi surveys competing opinions, drawing particular attention to English writers, including Henry Stubbe, alongside the earlier Spanish-language tradition. As Donatella Lippi observes, his discussion distinguishes adherents of established Galenic explanations from physicians claiming to work within more reasonable systems. Chocolate becomes a subject through which differing medical explanations can be compared, not simply a commodity to be praised or condemned. Anfossi's treatment also extends beyond drinking chocolate to cocoa butter as a medicinal preparation. Lippi highlights his discussion of its external application in the treatme

• Editore: Venezia
• Tipologia: Libro usato vintage
• Anno edizione: 1779
• EAN: 2570270169892

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