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Platina i.e. Bartolomeo (or Baptista) de’Sacchi di Pladena 
(1421-1481) 
[Platyne opera variaj [Colophon: Impressum Venetiis 
per Gulielmum de Fontaneto de Monteferrato. anno Dili M, 
D. XVIII, die. XV. deconhris] (1518) (Lib, Cong.) 
His ’♦De honesta voluptate” is a treatise on 
diet, including fruits and garden vegetables of 
his time, their characters, properties and uti¬ 
lization. (MFW) 
- Bap, Platinae Cremonensis De honesta voluptate, 
De rations victus, & modo vivendi [&c.] Coloniae, 1529, 
(Lib, Cong.) 
- [Parisiis] In aedibus I, Parui, MDXXX (1530). 
469 p. (Dept, Agr.) 
E. S, Rohde, "A garden of herbs’* (1926), pi, 
facing p,98, is engraved title or frontispiece 
reproduced from Platina, 1530, identical with 
engraved title in ”LustgartS uH pflantzungen” 
(Augspurg, H, Steyner, 1531), q.v. 
-- [French] Platine en fran^oys tr^s utile et 
necessaire pour le corps humain, qui traicte de honneste 
volupt6 et de toutes viandes et choses que I’omme menge. 
Lyon, 1505, F®. (Bib, Nat. Paris) 
Translated by Desdier Christol, prieur de 
Saint-Maurice, pr&s Montpellier. 
Mentioned by Gibault, Etude (1905), p.717, 
- - De 1’honneste volupte, livre tres neces¬ 
saire a la vie humaine pour observer bonne sante. Paris, 
1539, (Bib, Nat. Paris) 
- - Paris, 1559, (Bib. Nat. Paris) 
- - Lyon, 1571. (Bib. Nat. Paris) 
- - Le grand cuisinier, Paris, 1586. (Bib, 
Nat, Paris) 
Plattes, Gabriel, See Cook, Moses, The manner of raising, 
ordering and improving forest trees, London, 1679. 
Plaz, Anton Wilhelm (1708-1784) 
Panegyrin medicam ad D. vi. Ivlii A. R. G. MDCCLXIV, 
Indieit de plantarvm svb diverse coelo nascentivm cvltvra 
praefatvs, [Lipsiae, ex officina Langenhemiana, 1764] 
xii p. (Brit. Mus,; Mo. Bot, Gard.) 
