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![DELLA PORTA, Giovan Battista (c.1538-1615). De refractione optices parte: libri novem. Naples: Horatius Salvianus for Joannes Jacobus Carlinus and Antonio Pace, 1593. DELLA PORTA, Giovan Battista (c.1538-1615). De refractione optices parte: libri novem. Naples: Horatius Salvianus for Joannes Jacobus Carlinus and Antonio Pace, 1593.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2017/CKS/2017_CKS_14298_0249_000(della_porta_giovan_battista_de_distillatione_lib_ix_rome_camera_aposto045601).jpg?mode=max)
DELLA PORTA, Giovan Battista (c.1538-1615). De refractione optices parte: libri novem. Naples: Horatius Salvianus for Joannes Jacobus Carlinus and Antonio Pace, 1593.
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Giovanni della Porta, the Renaissance scholar who encrypted messages inside eggs to fool the Inquisition
![Della Porta, Giovanni Battista, 1535 - 4.2.1615, Italian polymath, portrait, woodcut in his book "Magiae naturalis sive de miraculis rerum naturalium", Napels, 1558, private collection Stock Photo - Alamy Della Porta, Giovanni Battista, 1535 - 4.2.1615, Italian polymath, portrait, woodcut in his book "Magiae naturalis sive de miraculis rerum naturalium", Napels, 1558, private collection Stock Photo - Alamy](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/B2J5PB/della-porta-giovanni-battista-1535-421615-italian-polymath-portrait-B2J5PB.jpg)
Della Porta, Giovanni Battista, 1535 - 4.2.1615, Italian polymath, portrait, woodcut in his book "Magiae naturalis sive de miraculis rerum naturalium", Napels, 1558, private collection Stock Photo - Alamy
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Written by Giovanni Battista della Porta | De Humana Physiognomonia. Libri III | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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