{"product_id":"soderini-giovanni-vettorio","title":"SODERINI, Giovanni Vettorio","description":"\u003cp\u003eA good copy of the first edition of this collection of three treatises on horticulture, the most important of which on vines and wine by G.V. Soderini (1526-96). He was an Italian agronomist who studied philosophy and law at Bologna; after being spared execution by Ferdinando I de  Medici for his political opposition, he was exiled to a Tuscan estate. The result of his years of forced  otium , the  Trattato  focuses on viticulture, examining the soil, weather and techniques which can elicit the best production of grapes and wine. The early annotator of this copy was a keen practitioner interested in the growth of vine cuttings ( magliuoli ), ways of preserving them from worms and tying them to one another, and the best time ( between the two moons ) to harvest grapes. Soderini also considered the nature and making of wines e.g., sweet,  hot , watered ( acquetta alla romanesca ) or dry and ways of giving them a specific flavour or smell with the addition of herbs. The second, shorter treatise Bernardo Davanzati Bostichi s  Coltivazione toscana delle viti  reprises selected topics on viticulture with the addition of material on fruit trees and vegetables, and methods of killing caterpillars and worms. The third Leonardo Giachini s  In difesa, et lode del popone  (dated 1527) is a hilarious mock-celebration of the melon, its flavour and properties (as well as of the  de re rustica  genre) set against the criticism thereof of an improbable physician  who wouldn t even be good enough to castrate pigs . An intriguing horticultural florilegium with a twist of flamboyant Renaissance satire.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SODERINI, Giovanni Vettorio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57816156799311,"sku":"L2811","price":1950.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/20190406_154510.jpg?v=1781794908","url":"https:\/\/sokol-books-ltd.myshopify.com\/products\/soderini-giovanni-vettorio","provider":"Sokol Books Ltd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}