Forcianae quaestiones : in quibus uaria Italorum ingenia explicantur, multa[que] alia scitu non indigna / autore Philalethe Polytopiensi ciue ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Landi, Ortensio, approximately 1512-approximately 1553.

Contributor:

Lovintus, Antiochus, active 16th century.

Landi, Ortensio, approximately 1512-approximately 1553.

Ragusi, family of printers.

Sessa, Melchiorre, active 1506-1549, printer.

Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Italian Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

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