Il tesoro della sanità
Subtitle: nel quale s'insegna il modo di conseruar la sanità & prolungar la vita, et si tratta della natvra de' cibi & de' rimedij de' nocumenti loro : con la tavola delle cose notabili
By: di Castor Durante da Gualdo, medico, & cittadino romano.
Contributors: Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Appresso Andrea Muschio
Published: 1586
Place of publication: In Venetia
Language: ita
Number of pages: 328
Subjects: Diet -- Italy -- Early works to 1800; Diet therapy -- Italy -- Early works to 1800; Food -- Early works to 1800; Herbs -- Therapeutic use -- Early works to 1800; Hygiene -- Early works to 1800; Longevity -- Early works to 1800; Cookery, Italian -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: NLM 16th cent. 1334
Pennell, E.R.  My cookery books, p. 82, 116-117
Simon, A.L.  Bibliotheca gastronomica, p. 55
Vicaire, G.  Bibliographie gastronomique, col. 303
Westbury, R.M.T.  Handlist of Italian cookery books, p. 83
Original title from NLM 16th cent., item 1332.
The first Italian edition was published in Rome in the same year. Cf. R.M.T. Westbury, who corrects both Georges Vicaire and André Simon (Bibliotheca bacchica and Bibliotheca gastronomica) on this point.
Signatures: ⁸ A-V⁸ X⁴.
Initials and printer's devices throughout.
Includes index, before text.
LC copy has inscription: To Mrs. J. Pennell ... This rare work is, notwithstanding its title, simply a cookbook, treating of the different kinds of food and their preparation. It is curious as containing poems on every subject of which it treats. Charles G. Leland.