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- Title
- Museo Cospiano
- Description
- Marquis Ferdinando Cospi (1601-1686) donated to the Senate of Bologna in 1660 his extensive collection of natural history specimens and archaeological objects, which was later combined with the vast botanical and zoological collections of Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522-1605). This inventory of the collection was published at Cospi's expense and has numerous woodcuts and an impressive copper engraving of the interior of his museum. At top a bust of Dante overlooks the cabinet of curiosities, containing both natural and manmade animal specimens, fossils, shells, scientific instruments, and rare books, with Cospi and the museum's custodian Sebastiano Biavati below.
- Call Number (click link to view in library catalog)
- Q. 507 L52m
- See Also
- Full Text Available at HathiTrust
- Authors
- Legati, Lorenzo
- Full Title
- Museo Cospiano annesso a quello del famoso Ulisse Aldrovandi e donato alla sua patria dall'illustrissimo signor Ferdinando Cospi patrizio di Bologna e senatore cavaliere commendatore di S. Stefano, Balì d'Arezzo, e march. di Petriolo, fra' gli Accademici Gelati il fedele, e principe al presente de' medisimi, descrizione di Lorenzo Legati cremonese, dottor filosofo, medico, e pubblico professore delle lettere greche in Bologna, accademico apatista, e ansioso.
- Date
- 1677
- From the Exhibit
- Building a Library: Sciences
- Publisher
- Per Giacomo Monti
- Location
- Bologna
- Language
- Italian
- Rights
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- Text
- Medium
- Book
- Bibliographic Citation
- Legati, Lorenzo. Museo Cospiano annesso a quello del famoso Ulisse Aldrovandi e donato alla sua patria dall’illustrissimo signor Ferdinando Cospi. In Bologna: Per Giacomo Monti, 1677. Print.