The title page is this: De coeli ardore, hoc anno 1580. We studied it on microfilm, kept in the National Széchényi Library in Budapest, Hungary (call number 385. Fortunately, the critical part describing the aurora is preserved in full in the Sibiu copy. This is known only in the second edition printed in Cracow: De coeli sive aeris ardore (Alexii Rodecii, Cracoviae) (Przypkowski 1959). Both are incomplete: the Sibiu specimen misses some parts of the text, and both lack the woodcut illustration referred to (Borsa et al. This book is extremely rare, known only in two copies: one is in the Brukenthal Museum in Sibiu, Romania, whilst another is in the Bibliothéque Nationale in Paris. The study we discuss in the following is on the observations of ‘celestial fire’: De coeli ardore (Cibinii, Greus, 1581).
546) and a treatise on subterranean waters: De fontium et fluviorum origine. Ciceronis eloqventissimi et sapientis viri moralis definitiones. 1580) a textbook of moral concepts for the benefit of the young prince (M.T. Squarcialupi published several works: amongst others an essay on comets ( De cometis dissertationes novae clarissimae, Erastus et al.
Later he lived in Poland and Switzerland until his death in Poschiavo in 1592 or 1599 (Balázs and Waczulik 1994 Bundi 2006 Masi 2013:33–39). He was responsible for the education of the Voivode’s son, Sigismund (Zsigmond) Báthory (1572–1613). He lived first in Basel (Switzerland), then moved to Transylvania and stayed there from 1580 to 1585 as medical doctor in the court of Voivode Christopher (Kristóf) Báthory (1530–1581). Becoming a Protestant (anti-trinitarian or unitarian) heretic, he had to leave Catholic Italy. Marcello Squarcialupi was born in Piombino (Tuscany, Italy) in about 1538.
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