De propria vita liber. Ex bibliotheca Gab. Naudaei. (Gabrielis Naudaei De Cardano iudicium.)
Paris: Jacques Villery, 1643. First edition, extremely rare, of one of the most famous autobiographies of all time. Girolamo Cardano, famous and influential Italian humanist and natural philosopher, supposedly wrote or at least finished his autobiography after 1570, when the Inquisition had arrested him, he was forced to spend some..... More
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