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PORTA, Giovanni Battista della (1536 – 1615)

1536 – 1615

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

1586 CE

#150

De humana physiognomonia libri IIII.

Della Porta preceded Lavater in attempting to estimate human character by the features. This is one of the first works on the ancient “science” of physiognomy to be extensively illustrated.