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BECCANUVOLI, Lucrezio. Tutte le Donne vicentine, maritate, vedove, e dongelle. [?Bologna: 1539].
Small 4° (195 x 140mm). (First gathering a little loose, top margins cut quite close.) Early 20th-century limp vellum. Provenance: Giuseppe Martini, the bookseller (bookplate).
FIRST and only edition of this rare book extolling the virtues of 244 women from Vicenza, and a short poem in praise of that city written in terza rima. Censimento B-869 (locating two copies).
Small 4° (195 x 140mm). (First gathering a little loose, top margins cut quite close.) Early 20th-century limp vellum. Provenance: Giuseppe Martini, the bookseller (bookplate).
FIRST and only edition of this rare book extolling the virtues of 244 women from Vicenza, and a short poem in praise of that city written in terza rima. Censimento B-869 (locating two copies).