Dell'uso ed abuso della cioccolata del Dottore Gio: Battista Anfossi romano a sua eccellenza Pier - Vettore Pisani Procurator di S. Marco

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<p>“GLI DEI BEVONO AMBROSIA, GLI UOMINI CIOCCOLATA” - “THE GODS DRINK AMBROSIA; MEN DRINK CHOCOLATE”</p> <p>8vo (198x135 mm). 100 pp. Contemporary plain boards “alla rustica”, inked title on spine. Contemporary ownership entry on front flyleaf “Matteo Zacchiroli”. Bookblock a bit loose. A very good, unsophisticated copy.</p> <p>First edition, second issue, with a reset title-page bearing the Venetian imprint of Francesco Locatelli, reissuing the Rovigo publication of 1775. The earlier issue appeared under the fuller title <em>Dell'uso ed abuso della cioccolata. Dissertazione storico-medica</em>, printed at Rovigo by Gianjacopo Miazzi, and is recorded in the Italian Union Catalogue as SBLE000479.</p> <p>The work had attracted attention outside Italy before its Venetian reissue as it was reviewed in the eighteenth-century learned journal “Gothaische gelehrte Zeitungen”, 1776, volume 5, pp. 282-284.</p> <p>Anfossi identifies himself on the title-page as a Roman physician and addresses the work to Pier-Vettore Pisani, Procurator of St Mark. The original subtitle, <em>dissertazione storico-medica</em>, accurately indicates the conjunction of historical inquiry and medical argument. Rather than treating chocolate solely as a fashionable indulgence, Anfossi considers it a substance whose reputation must be examined through the literature concerning its origins, preparation, and effects.</p> <p>Anfossi surveys competing opinions, drawing particular attention to English writers, including Henry Stubbe, alongside the earlier Spanish-language tradition. As Donatella Lippi observes, his discussion distinguishes adherents of established Galenic explanations from physicians claiming to work within more reasonable systems. Chocolate becomes a subject through which differing medical explanations

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