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under the auspices of the Accademia dei Lincei - in 16°, pelle edit. con coste al dorso e riproduzione della firma dell'autore in rilievo al piatto ant. - volume in lingua inglese, testo italiano a fronte - numerose illustrazioni in b.n. nel testo, anche in rilievo - The capitolo «Contro il portar la toga» and the sonnet «Enimma», both written by Galileo Galilei, have been translated in english as «Against the Donning of the Gown» and «Enigma» by Giovanni F. Bignami and illustrated with original drawings by Donata Almici. Crafted with care for each and every part by Fausto Olivieri and Alessandro Sartori composed with mobile «monotype» characters printed on the planocylindrical press by Officina Tipografica Olivieri in Milano and handicrafted natural cotton fiber paper with neutral ph for conservation beyond time and with uncut edges by sicars paper mills in Catania assembled by hand in the Bottega del Legatore in Ancona printed in a run of two thousand copies