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[Women, Misogyny] Passi, I donneschi difetti, 1618
INTERESTING AND CURIOUS SOCIOLOGICAL TREATISE ON WOMEN'S DEFECTS, A SORT OF MANUAL OF MISOGYNY, WRITTEN BY GIUSEPPE PASSI
Passi, Giuseppe. I donneschi difetti di Giuseppe Passi rauennate nell'illustrissima Academia de signori Riccourati di Padoua, & informi di Rauenna l'Ardito. Aggiunntoui in questa quarta impressione per compimento di essi molte cose curiose, che ne gl'altri mancauano, degne d'esser lette, da chi disegna schiuare gl'inganni delle femmine. Con tre tauole; la prima de i capi contenuti nell'opera; la seconda degl'auttori; la terza delle cose notabili. In Venezia: appresso Vincenzo Somascho, 1618.
4to (190x136 mm), full vellum binding, handwritten title at spine; pp. [24], 380.
Xyl. printer's device at title-page.
Xyl. historated initials and head-pieces.
The first edition of this curious work came out in Milan in 1599 and was reprinted in Venice in the same year, revised and corrected; it was put on the Index in 1623 [Michel VI, 85; Index Librorum prohibitorum, 1895, 303].
Dedicated to the Prince of Urbino, Federico Feltre Dalla Rovere, it deals with the superb women, stingy, intemperate, lascivious, libidinous etc., as stated in the Tavola de' Capi.
Provenance: Handwritten ownership inscription at title-page (Jacobi Philippi Cherubini).
References: IT\ICCU\RMRE\001594. OCLC, 38612417.