Cooke, Elizabeth, c 1540-1609 (poet and noblewoman)
Person
Dates
- Existence: c 1540 - 1609
- Usage: c 1540 - 1558
- Usage: 1558 - 1574
- Usage: 1574 - 1609
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Giardino Cosmografico da Bartholo Sylva, 1572
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Ii.05.37
Scope and Contents
This is a work on natural history in general, in eight books, with pictorial illustrations. The title-page describing the author, etc., is as follows: ‘Gia Sylva hor giardino cosmografico cultivato da Bartholo Sylva cittadino di Turino medico phisico et chyrugico; per quelli, che non hanno tempo di far longo studio; opera non meno utile, che molto necessaria per cognoscere il Mondo, e le co se continenti in quello; perche chi non conosce il mondo non merita star nel mondo’. Here follows a...
Dates:
1572
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