[Rarebooks] FS: Piccolomini's licentious satire on women. Venice: (circa late 1550s)

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[Piccolomini, Alessandro]. DIALOGO DOVE SI RAGIONA DELLA BELLA CREANZA DELLE DONNE. Venice: Appresso Domenico Farri. No date (but after 1555). 8vo. ff.46,(1, blank), but lacking the final blank leaf. Lg. woodcut device and ornament on title page. Early 19th century calf, gilt, over marbled boards.	$750.00 (trade discount allowed)
Perhaps the 4th edition of this licentious satire against women by Piccolomini (1508-1578), the Archbishop of Patia. In it an older, experienced woman, instructs her younger pupil on (among other things) the most subtle ways of deceiving a husband. BL Italian STC, p. 214 (under "Dialogo..."). Gay I, 894.


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