Medical library and historical journal . d on the same shelf by theside of the Mundinus and the Isagogce Breves et the price! When I knew it, I laid down the book and wentaway sorrowing! After a couple of days I went back to the Lungarno andlooked at the book again! The title in red letters—Carpi Corn-mcntaria cum amplissimis Additionibus super anatomia mundiniuna cum textu ejusdem in pristimum et verum nitorem redacto(Commentaries of Carpus upon the Anatomy of Mundinus, withmost extensive additions, with the text of the same restored to itsoriginal and correct elegance)—this
Medical library and historical journal . d on the same shelf by theside of the Mundinus and the Isagogce Breves et the price! When I knew it, I laid down the book and wentaway sorrowing! After a couple of days I went back to the Lungarno andlooked at the book again! The title in red letters—Carpi Corn-mcntaria cum amplissimis Additionibus super anatomia mundiniuna cum textu ejusdem in pristimum et verum nitorem redacto(Commentaries of Carpus upon the Anatomy of Mundinus, withmost extensive additions, with the text of the same restored to itsoriginal and correct elegance)—this title, I say, stood out clearand bold like a tablet, framed by vine-entwined columns whichsupported an entablature upon which were displayed the arms ofthe Medici upon the Papal Keys, and the legend Leo X., whilein the base was depicted a dissecting-room scene with professor,cadaver and pupils. {See Plate I.) Could this treasure be permitted to escape from me? Perish Miiiiiiil <iiitl IlislniUiil Juiniiiil. KjOj. Plate 4^^-^^-^v-^;>^ \1C>XX< - Iac-siniik of the tillc-paf^e ot ihc ??ConimciUarics of Carpus upon the Analoniv of Mundinus. CAKPKNSI AM) 11 l.^ COM .\II:M AKIKS ON MUNDINUS. 3 the thought! What were paltry dollars beside the pleasure andprivilej^e of owning this copy (rf the ^reat Carpis ^reat book,which, if it was once safely housed in my library at home, mi<;htbe handled and looked at every day of my life if 1 so chose? Inshort, the result simply iiluslraled the tiuth of the ada^e, Hewho hesitates is lost. Olscliki trjok the money and i have thebook! liereng-arius da Carpi was born in 1470 and died in 1550. Hewas the son of a surgeon named Faustino, was a schoolfellow withthe young Duke of Carpi, was a pupil of Aldus Manutius, andwas a friend of Benvenuto Cellini, v/ith whose fiery temper hehad much in common and by whom he was repeatedly mentionedby name in his autobiography. He was an admirer of CardinalGiulio de Medicis, to whom
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