Alexius Pedemontanus

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Alessio Piemontese, better known under his latinized name of Alexius Pedemontanus, was an 16th century Italian physician, and alchemist. His book[1] was published and translated in his time in Latin, German and French and Welsh. Some stated that Alessio Piemontese was a pseudonym of Girolamo Ruscelli (Viterbo 1500 — Venice 1566), humanist and cartographer[2].

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  • Opera nuova nella quale si contengono tre utilissimi ricettari, 1538
  • De secretis libri sex mira quadam rerum varietate referti ex Italico in Latinum sermonem nunc primum translati..., Venice, 1550
  • Mirabilis magnus naturae, D. O. M. A. TRACTATUS II. Opificia et artificia, sive artes Mechanicas et manuarias ad Remp. necessarias, utiles et voluptarias complectitur. Commonly known under the German name of Kunstbuch.
  • Girolamo Ruscelli, Translation of Ptolemy's Geography.

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  1. ^ De' secreti del reuerendo donno Alessio Piemontese, prima parte, diuisa in sei libri, In Venetia: per Sigismondo Bordogna, 1555.
  2. ^ Gaetano Melzi. Alessio Piemontese, in Dizionario di opere anonime e pseudonime di scrittori italiani o come che sia aventi relazione all'Italia. Milano, L. di G. Pirola, 1848. vol. I (A-G), p. 32 [1].

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