Dialoghi di Pietro Messia

Resource Information

The work Dialoghi di Pietro Messia represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in UCLA Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Dialoghi di Pietro Messia

Statement of responsibility

tradotti nuouamente di spagnuolo in uolgare da Alfonso d'Ulloa ; con la tauola di tutte le cose degne di memoria, che in essi si leggono

Creator

• Mexía, Pedro, 1496?-1552?

Contributor

• Ulloa, Alfonso de, -approximately 1580
• Pietrasanta, Plinio, active 16th century

Printer

• Pietrasanta, Plinio, active 16th century

Translator

• Ulloa, Alfonso de, -approximately 1580

Subject

• Courtesy books
• Medicine -- Early works to 1800
• Science -- Early works to 1800
• Dinners and dining -- Early works to 1800
• Manuscript waste (Binding)

Genre

• Courtesy books
• Early works to 1800
• Manuscript waste (Binding)

Language

• ita
• spa
• ita

Summary

First Italian translation of Pedro Mexía's dialogues, which deal with such subjects as the convenience of having one's own doctor, banquets (and consequently dietetics), and the causes of lightning, earthquakes, and comets.

Member of

• Coloquios o dialogos

Cataloging source

NLM

Citation location within source

• 167380
• 557/29
• p. 436
• CNCE 34732

Citation source

• Palau y Dulcet (2. ed.)
• Alden, J.E. European Americana
• BM STC Italian, 1465-1600
• EDIT 16

Index

index present

LC call number

Q155

LC item number

.M61 I1557

Literary form

non fiction

NLM call number

WZ 240

NLM item number

M611cI 1557

Summary expansion

The work was immensely popular, with 11 editions in Spanish appearing by the end of the century, and translations in Italian, French, Dutch, and English