[PICCOLOMINI, Alessandro (1508-1578)] - Dialogo de la bella creanza de le donne. De lo Stordito Intronato. Venice: stampata in Brovazzo per dispetto d'un asnazzo [i.e. Comin da Trino], 1540.   Early edition in elegant binding, published shortly after the first of 1539; another edition by Curzio Navò was also printed in the same year. This is the famous dialogue written by Piccolomini under the pseudonym "Stordito Intronato". In the opera, the elderly Raffaella educates the young Margherita, as well as in the feminine arts of make-up and clothing, in the ars amandi and in how to find and maintain a satisfactory extramarital relationship.   8vo (150 x 100mm). Woodcut initial (browning, small marginal restoration at leaf C8). 20th-century half calf on marbled paper, gilt decorations and title on spine (very light rubbing).

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