Aretino, Pietro

The Ragionamenti [Two volumes]

Paris, France: Isidore Liseux, 1889. First Edition Thus. Octavos, two volumes. In Very Good condition. Bound in dark red cloth with gilt lettering and enumeration to spines. Mild shelfwear and chipping to heads and tails of spines and to covers. Moderate bumping to fore-edges resulting in slight exposure to boards. Tanning to edges of textblock with slight soiling to bottom edge of volume one and top edge of volume two. Minor foxing to side edge of volume two and to interior of textblock. Light writing in pencil to tops of front endpapers. Tipped in page cut from endpapers of volume one. Binding thread visible with slight separation between second and third rear free edges of volume one. Frontispiece with engraving of author by Raimondi protected with glassine.

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NOTES

Originally published in the 16th century, this translated edition of the "Ragionamenti" contains 6 dialogues and is alternately titled, "Dialogues of the Divine." Aretino was a controversial writer during the Italian Renaissance for reasons similar to de Sade: his work was considered illicit and vulgar by contemporaries.