Della Biblioteca Volante - Scanzia IV: “The burnt volume”

Giovanni Cinelli Calvoli, Della biblioteca volante di Gio. Cinelli Caluoli patrizio fiorentino, e forliuese Accadem. Gelato &c. Scanzia XIV. Consagrata al … , In Napoli 1682.

inelli intervened in the controversy between Bernardino Ramazzini and the physician of the Grand Duke Giovanni Andrea Moneglia, following the death after childbirth of the Marchesa Maria Maddalena Martellini Bagnesi. The merits of the quarrel are of little moment now, but it had an unlucky influence upon Cinelli. He was of a passionate and sarcastic disposition, and the violence of his attacks upon the physician of the Grand Duke led to the suppression of that number of the Biblioteca Volante and the imprisonment of its author, who was not released without an apology and a promise not to return to the subject. A public burning of the edition was ordered by Cosme de Medici. A rare and important book for understanding the history of censorship.

Outstandingly rare !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

15 x 9.5 cm; Contemporary preliminary binding as delivered by the printer.

A few damp stains; otherwise, paper clean and un-toned; in very good state. Ex Libris of the Monastery "S. Michaelis de Muriano Venetiar".

Giovanni Cinelli Calvoli was born in Florence on February 26, 16251. He studied at the University of Pisa, where one of his teachers was Evangelista Torricelli. After receiving his doctorate in philosophy and medicine, he married and returned to Florence in 1651. He collected small rare opuscules and published them by notebooks, under the title of Biblioteca volante, scanzia 1, 2, 3, 4, etc., in-8°. The author sometimes joined criticisms in note to the title of the works as in the 4th book, about a discussion between two doctors of Florence of which one, doctor of the grand duke Cosme III of Medici, accuses Cinelli of calumny, attacks him in justice and makes him condemn to withdraw the edition of this 4th book which is burned publicly by the executor of justice. Once released, Cinelli leaves Florence and his family for Venice and makes print there a writing entitled: Giustificazione di Giovanni Cinelli where he makes known his resentment. From Venice, he returned to Bologna where he was welcomed by the scholars of the Accademia dei Gelati; he went to Modena to teach the Tuscan language while practicing medicine and continued to publish the tablets and notebooks of his Bibliothèque volante. Cinelli was chosen, in 1609, by Cardinal Bichi, bishop of Ancona, to be his first physician. After the death of the prelate he continued to practice at the Holy House of Loreto where he died after a brief illness on April 18, 17061.