De expetendis et fugiendis rebus (On seeking and avoiding things) is an
encyclopedia which was compiled by
Giorgio Valla in 49 books.[1] Valla died in 1500 and the work was then published by his adopted son,
Giovanni Pietro in 1501. It was printed in two large-format volumes by
Aldus Manutius in
Venice.[2]
References
^Iolanda Ventura (2004), "Quaestiones and Encyclopedias", Schooling and Society: The Ordering and Reordering of Knowledge in the Western Middle Ages, Peeters Publishers, pp. 37–38,
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