An octavo edition of Cortese's Secreti was printed in Venice by Carlo Conzatti in 1665, over a century after the original publication.
In 1665, more than a hundred years after the book first appeared, Venetian printer Carlo Conzatti produced a new octavo edition of Secreti della Signora Isabella Cortese, ne' quali si contengono cose minerali, medicinali, arteficiose, & alchimiche: Et molte de l'arte profumatoria, appartenenti a ogni gran signora.
This late-seventeenth-century printing is remarkable for demonstrating the extraordinarily long commercial and practical life of Cortese's text. Few vernacular scientific or alchemical works of the mid-sixteenth century remained in active print more than a century after their debut, yet the demand for Cortese's recipes—spanning minerals, medicines, artisanal techniques, alchemy, and perfumery for noblewomen—persisted.
The continued marketing of the book toward 'ogni gran signora' (every great lady) in the title reflects its enduring appeal to an audience of elite and aspirational women seeking practical knowledge for household management, personal care, and health remedies.
The survival of this 1665 edition in library collections today provides scholars with valuable material evidence for tracing the transmission and adaptation of early modern scientific and alchemical knowledge across generations, as well as insight into the print culture that sustained works attributed to women authors long after their initial publication.