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Forcianae quaestiones : in quibus uaria Italorum ingenia explicantur, multa[que] alia scitu non indigna / autore Philalethe Polytopiensi ciue ...
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Landi, Ortensio, approximately 1512-approximately 1553.
- Language:
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Women.
- Manners and customs.
- Italy--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
- Italy.
- Italy--Social life and customs--Early works to 1800.
- Women--Italy--Early works to 1800.
- Physical Description:
- 24 leaves ; 16 cm (8vo)
- Other Title:
- Forcianae qvaestiones
- Fingerprint:
- run i-ar o-t) difu (3) 1536 (R)
- Place of Publication:
- Neapoli : Excudebat Martinus de Ragusia [that is, Melchiorre Sessa], MDXXXVI [1536]
- Notes:
- Philalethes Polytopiensis is a pseudonym of Ortensio Landi. Cf. G. Melzi Anonime e pseudonime, II, p. 335.
- False imprint; actually printed in Venice by Melchiorre Sessa. Cf. Fahy.
- Edited by Antiochus Lovintus.
- Signatures: A-C⁸.
- Woodcut historiated initials.
- Published in Venice.
- Cited in:
- BM STC Italian, 1465-1600, p. 510
- BN LXXXVII, col. 1099
- EDIT 16 CNCE 29755
- Fahy, C. Two 'Neapolitan' ed. of Ortensio Lando's Forcianae Quaestiones, p. 123-134
- Melzi, G. Opere anonime e pseudonime, II, p. 335
- OCLC:
- 34756748
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