Porta, Giovanni Battista della (l538?-1615) 
Snae villae Olivetum, sive liber sextus* Neapoli, apud 
haeredes Matthiae Cancri, 1584. 78 p. (Bib. Nat. Paris) 
Re, Diz. Rag. Lib. Agr. 3:357, says that Por¬ 
ta’s Villae libri XII was not at first published 
as a complete work, the Pomarium being issued in 
1583, and the Olivetum in the following year. 
lo. Baptistee Portae Neapoliteni suae villae. Pomarium. 
Expecta proxjediem candide lector reliquos nostrae villae li¬ 
tres. Neapoli, apud Horatirm Salvienum & Caesarem Caesa- 
ris, 1583 [1584] 323 p. (Am. Arb.; Crerar; Harvard; 
Brit. Mus.: Bib. Nat. Paris) 
Am. Arb. gives date as 1583 [1584], which is 
probably correct for the other copies listed; Bib. 
Nat. and Crerar give 1583 as the imprint date and 
1584 in the colophon. 
Villae lo. Eaptistae Portae ... Libri XIIi 1, domus; 2, 
sylva caedua; 3, sylva glandaria; 4, cultus & insitio; 5, 
pomariian; 6, olivetum; 7, vinea; 8, arbustum; 9, hortus 
coronarius; 10, hortus olitorius; 11, seges: 12, pratum. 
Franoofurti, apud A. Wechcli he redes, C. Mamim & I. Aub- 
rium, 1592. 914 p. (Dept. Agr.; . Brooklyn Bot. Gard.; 
Mo. Bot. Gard.; Brit. Mus.; Kew; Bib. Nat. Paris) 
A collection of the precepts of the ancients 
regarding agricultural econon^, and their knowl¬ 
edge about the plants included in this treatise. 
The author, however, has from time to time added 
something of his own. He accepts a great part 
of the prejudices which have hindered the prog¬ 
ress of agriculture, with verjr little discrim¬ 
ination. — Cf. Re, Diz. Rag. Lib. Agr. 3:258. 
/ Atm . 
