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In the same years that Francesco di Giorgio was employed at Urbino, Piero della Francesca composed the Tractatus de quinque corporibus regularibus, a treatise dedicated to Prince Guidobaldo that instructs its reader on the geometric construction of the regular (so-called Platonic) solids.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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This term is found in the Prohemium of Piero della Francesca's treatise on the five "platonic" solids, De quinque corporibus regularibus, dedicated to Prince Guidobaldo: "qui non minori artis studio/ingenio/solertia/& industria fuerunt."
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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Monetae Cremonensis adversus Catharos et Valdenses libri quinque I (Descriptio fidei haereticorum).
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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P. Crassus Mutianus, quinque habuisse dicitur rerum bonarum maxima, quod esset ditissimus, quod esset nobilissimus, eloquentissimus, Jurisconsultissimus, Pontifex maximus.
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Note 21: Monetae Cremonensis adversus Catharos et Valdenses libri quinque I (Descriptio fidei haereticorum), ed. Thomas A. Ricchini (Rome, 1743), 283 — 88. back
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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P. testa ovata, umbilicata; spira mediocri, acuta, ad apicem integra, cornea, viridescente aut pallide fulva; anfractibus quinque, convexis, saepe plus minusve transversim subliratis; apertura ovata; labio reflexo, umbilicum partim tegente; labro vix incrassato, peristomate nigrescente.
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Tres filii patrem ab excubiis, quinque ab omnibus officiis liberabanto.
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Faetida, de quinque generibus mirabolanorum, &c. More proper to melancholy, not excluding in the meantime, turbith, manna, rhubarb, agaric, elescophe, &c. which are not so proper to this humour.
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Centum et quinque vixit annos sine ullo incommodo.
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P. testa ovata, imperforata, solidiuscula, cornea; spira brevi, acuta, apice interdum papilloso; anfractibus quinque, convexiusculis; transversim striatis; apertura acuto-ovata; labio incrassato, spiraliter valde tortuoso; labro intus incrassato et fusco tincto, margine acuto, arcuato.
yarb commented on the word quinque
He found a public phone booth, entered, shut the door against the noise of traffic, and dropped a gold quinque into the slot.
- P.K. Dick, Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said.
March 26, 2012