[PICCOLOMINI, Alessandro]

Dialogo dove si ragiona della bella creanza delle Donne Venice, 1574 GOOD COPY In-12 (136 x 46 mm). Flower on the title page, woodcut bands and initials COLLATION : A-D12 E6 : 54 ff (A2r-E6r folioed 2-54) CONTENTS : A1r : title, A2r : preface, A5r : text ANNOTATION : author's name written by an old hand in brown ink on the back of the title page Eighteenth century binding. Red morocco, gilt decoration, triple fillet in frame, long spine decorated with vertical titling, gilt edges PROVENANCE: René Davoust ? (handwritten inscription on the flyleaf) -- unidentifiable wet stamp on verso of title page -- unidentified bookplate with the motto "Discessit non decessit". Sometimes a little short at foot, small marginal holes at B5, some foxing BIBLIOGRAPHY: USTC 848355 -- EDIT16 41064 -- Brunet, II, col. 667-668: "this dialogue, which Haym describes as bellissimo, is far too free a production for someone like Alex. Piccolomini could have put his name to it; but it is this very defect which gave the most vogue to the work"