francesco santinelli (6 Ergebnisse)

In-8 ( 225 X 150 mn ) de 144 pages, broché sous couverture illustrée. Illustrations dans et hors-texte. Bel exemplaire. Religion Symbolisme Hermétisme Occultisme Esotérisme Franc-Maçonnerie Alchimie.

Edizioni Mediterranee, Roma 2000. A cura di Anna Maria Partini. 135 S., 2 Bl. Vlgs.-Anz. illustr. OKarton. Biblioteca Ermetica 26, diretta da Paolo Lucarelli. - Gutes Exemplar. Sprache : it.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. Italian language. 8.82x5.67x0.55 inches. In Stock.

Edizioni Mediterranee, Roma 1985. A cura di Anna Maria Partini. 151 S., 4 Bl. Vlgs.-Anz. illustr. OKarton. Biblioteca Ermetica 17, diretta da Stefano Andreani. - Gutes Exemplar. Sprache : it.

4to (185 x 265 mm). Italian manuscript on paper. (20), 259, (5). 4 hand-drawn illustrations. Contemporary leather binding with "De arte aurifica" written on the spine. An otherwise unknown treatise covering alchemy from its philosophical basis through to its practical applications, including the construction of the oven, the nature of the Philosopher's Stone, and several recipes for gold and other metals. It also contains poems on alchemical and hermetic subjects, most of them by the Italian poet and alchemist Francesco Maria Santinelli (1626-97), who cannot, however, be established as the author of the main text. - After a brief introduction to alchemical thought, the text provides detailed instructions, with beautiful hand-drawn diagrams, for the construction of the oven (Athanor). There follows a discussion of the Philosopher's Stone before the text moves on to its main subject, the production and refinement of various metals. Although the short title on the spine ("De arte aurifica") and at the top of the pages throughout ("Spiegatione Filosofiche Del Arte Aurifica") place the emphasis on gold, the numerous recipes allow the reader to create a wide variety of substances, giving the volume a practical function for an active alchemist. The ten recipes for gold are for the drinkable (colloidal) variety, used in the period for medical purposes. - After the main text there are a selection of alchemical and hermetic texts in at least three different hands, including several poems by Francesco Maria Santinelli (under his anagrammatic pseudonym Fra Marc'Antonio Crassellame Chinese), as well as a sonnet attributed (though not in this manuscript) to Frate Elia da Cortona, an associate of St. Francis ("Solvete i corpi in acqua."), and one which is unidentified ("L'Acqua, che el bel smeraldo in se nasconde."). The text of Santinelli's poems is drawn from his "Lux Obnubilata", and the layout mimics that of the printed edition nearly exactly, implying this volume was copied at some point after its publication in 1666. Several pages are left blank to allow the reader to add their own recipes and reflections. - The work stems from a time when chemistry was beginning to split off from alchemy. The title is clearly modelled on that of Evangelista Quattrami's "La vera dichiaratione di tutte le metafore, similitudini, ed enimmi degl'antichi filosofi alchimisti" of 1587. Quattrami, the long-standing herborist to the Este Dukes of Ferrara, argued for a distinction between the noble tradition of "alchemical philosophy" and "false alchemists", who were mere charlatans who swindled rich and poor alike by claiming they could convert base metals to gold. True alchemy, for Quattrami, was a philosophical metaphor: it was not the mere "dead" metals of the earth but "living" metals of the spirit that it was concerned with transmuting. This places Quattrami's work in the tradition of Hermetic Philosophy, a tradition originating ultimately in Hellenistic Egypt which was transmitted through Islamic to Christian authors and gained popularity in the Renaissance among alchemists. - As the true understanding of spiritual nature in alchemy is linked with the understanding of physical nature, many alchemists of this period thus made important discoveries that paved the way for the scientific field of what we could call chemistry to define itself. It includes recipes from several sixteenth- and seventeenth-century (al)chemists, such as Daniel Sennert (1572-1637), Johann Hartmann Beyer (1563-1625) and Johan Rudolf Glauber (1604-70), as well as earlier ones such as Paracelsus (1439-1541). This work represents a continuation of these varied but intertwined traditions. - An exemplary collection of the philosophical, mystic, and scientific elements of the mercurial discipline of alchemy at a time of its own transmutation. - Binding somewhat warped and stained but overall in good condition, title clearly visible on spine. Inside of front binding repaired. Light edgewear, title-page repaired, some pages with mostly marginal tears and worm damage but not enough to impact legibility. A spilt liquid has stained much of the manuscript, staining some pages extensively but again the legibility is only rarely impaired. In good condition for a book of its age that has seen active use. - A reference in the introduction to the work of the alchemist Olivero Olivieri at the court of Duke Ranuccio I Farnese of Parma (1592-1622) suggests a northern Italian provenance in particular. The inside of the the front binding repaired with a pastedown made from a late nineteenth- or early twentieth-century Italian calendar of saint's days. - Alfredo Perifano, "Alchimie et philosophie de la nature chez Evangelista Quattrami", in Alchimie et philosophie à la Renaissance, ed. by Jean-Claude Margolin and Sylvain Matton (Paris, 1993), pp. 253-264. Anna Maria Partini, Francesco Maria Santinelli: Sonetti Alchimici e altri scriti inediti (Rome, 1985). Francesco Maria Santinelli, Lux obnubilata suaptè natura refulgens: vera de lapide philosophico theorica, metro italico descripta (Venice, 1666). Evangelista Quattrami de Gubbio, La vera dichiaratione di tutte le metafore, similitudini, ed enimmi degl'antichi filosofi alchimisti (Rome, 1587).

Zustand: MOLTO BUONO. Nell'Aquila, per Gregorio Gobbi cm.8x14,5, pp80, 4 cc. non numerate, la prima con una incisione allegorica di tipo esoterico, frontalini incisi. ABC sesterni, in fine 4 cc. non numerate, completo. Legatura in piena pergamena rigida coeva. Esemplare perfettamente conservato, su carta forte e con la stampa ben inchiostrata, lievissima mancanza di carta nella parte bassa di terza carta iniziale non numerata, in basso a destra, lontana dallo specchio di stampa, traccia di antica segnatura a inchiostro al frontespizio. Prima rarissima edizione, mai più ristampata (note due copie in biblioteche austriache e cinque in Italia), di queste rime dovute alla penna di Francesco Maria Santinelli, (Pesaro, 1627 Roma,1697) , il più grande alchimista italiano insieme al Palombara e al Kircher. Essi costituirono un cenacolo intorno alla figura di Cristina, la regina di Svezia, alla quale molte poesia sono dedicate. I testi poetici rincorrono, all'interno di audaci sperimentazioni mariniste, una imagery intessuta spesso di sottili sottesi di ispirazione alchemico-astrologica.