Lastri, Marco Antonio 
Della coltirazione degli alberi da frutto. (in Combles, 
de# Trattato della coltura de’ persici, Venezia, Graziosi, 
1792. p.181-210) (Dept. Agr.) 
This tract, which forms an appendix to the Ital¬ 
ian translation of Combles on the peach, offers no 
direct evidence of its authorship. It might be by 
the translator of Combles, b’jt there are no proofs 
of any connection between them. This little work, 
however, shows a considerable knowledge of agricul¬ 
tural literature, and in particular makes numerous 
references to Tedaldi, who lived from 1495 to 1575, 
and whose "Discorso dell* agricoltura” was brought 
out in 1776, with notes by Ifarco Lastri, This sug¬ 
gested Lastri* s authorship, and the anonymous work 
on fruit growing was later identified with No*7 of 
his "Lezioni di agricoltura,” We have not yet dis¬ 
covered when or how it was first published, but it 
was probably in his ”Lunario per i contadini della 
Toscana" (1774-1785), which, according to Re, Diz, 
Rag, Lib. Agr, 5:56, was reissued as an individual 
work, Firenze, Pagani, 1787, with the title "Corso 
di agriooltura.” (MFW) 
-- (In Lastri, Marco Antonio. Corso di agricolture 
di un accademioo georgofilo. Ed,3. Firenze, 1801, t.l, 
p*171-196) (Lib, Cong.) 
