Trattato di veterinaria : frammenti estratti dal Corpus Hippiatricorum Graecorum : testo greco a fronte / Apsirto ; introduzione, traduzione e note a cura di Antonio Sestili.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Absyrtus (Veterinarian), author.

Contributor:

Sestili, Antonio, editor, translator.

Ruel, Jean, 1474-1537, translator.

Language:

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Italian

Latin

Subjects (All):

Horses--Diseases--Early works to 1800.

Horses.

Horses--Diseases.

Veterinary medicine--Early works to 1800.

Veterinary medicine.

Physical Description:

518 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 24 cm

Edition:

Prima edizione.

Place of Publication:

Roma : Società editrice Dante Alighieri, [2016]

Language Note:

Original text in Greek with Italian translation on facing pages; introduction and critical notes in Italian. Also contains the Latin translation by J. Ruel (1530).

Summary:

"This book represents the first Italian translation of nearly all the excerpts of the Apsyrtus' treatise, transmitted in the Hippiatrica Berolinensia and chosen to be the foundation of the Hippiatrica and the most extensive work on horse-medicine in Greek; furthermore, its relation both to earlier and later writers makes his treatise the axis, so to speak, through which nearly all surviving Greek and Latin veterinary texts are linked"--Page 4 of cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-429).

Contains:

Container of: Absyrtus (Veterinarian). Fragments.

Container of: Absyrtus (Veterinarian). Fragments. Italian.

Container of: Absyrtus (Veterinarian). Fragments. Latin.

ISBN:

9788853437648

8853437642

OCLC:

1015312130