Aboca Editions presents the reproduction of I discorsi di P. A. Mattioli, in the famous large print version published by Valgrisi in Venice in 1568. The specimen used by Aboca, now held at the Alessandrina Library in Rome, is renowned for the magnificent decorations by Gherardo Cibo, who, in addition to colouring the engraving, completed the background with evocative landscapes produced by his fertile imagination.
