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D'ARAGONA, Tullia (c. 1510-1556). Dialogo ... della infinitá di amore. Venice: Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, 1547. 8° (162 x 100mm). Woodcut printer's device on title and final leaf, historiated woodcut initials. (Without blank V4, waterstaining on title and on bottom margin of some leaves.) Contemporary vellum, manuscript title on spine and front cover, shelf-mark label on spine (some staining and small chips to spine). Provenance: unidentified stamps on title -- Biblioteca Prov. Ven. Med. S.I. (stamp on title and I1) -- Collegio C. Arioi, Brescia (stamp) -- Compagnia del Gesú (book label and stamp on title).
FIRST EDITION. Tullia d'Aragona was a 16th-century Italian courtesan, author and philosopher. She lived in Venice, Florence, Ferrara and Rome. The present treatise is a declaration of women's sexual and emotional independence within exchanges of romantic love. Adams A-1501; Brunet I, 373.
FIRST EDITION. Tullia d'Aragona was a 16th-century Italian courtesan, author and philosopher. She lived in Venice, Florence, Ferrara and Rome. The present treatise is a declaration of women's sexual and emotional independence within exchanges of romantic love. Adams A-1501; Brunet I, 373.