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La felicit del matrimonio discusses the problems of choosing a wife based on physical beauty, the nature of women, and the inherent inequalities of the sexes, especially when there is a large different in age or education. He advises on how to deal with admirer's of one's wife, the reading of romances an novels, etc. Campastri alludes to a number of authors in this treatise, including Locke, Newton, Boccaccio, Pettrarch, Addison, Fontenelle, and Ben Jonson. Octavo. [14], 122 pp. Engraved frontisportrait, engraved vignette on title-page, woodcut headband, initial letter, and tail-pieces Contemporary stiff vellum with title and erroneous author ("Roberti") written in manuscript on spine. The name "Roberti" also appears in ink after "Abate N.N." on the title-page. Covers a bit soiled, with minor stains, and vellum patch at foot of spine. A few small wormholes on binding near back joints.Back free endpaper detached, light worming at gutter margins of endpapers, extending to lower margin of last two leaves of text, but not touching text. Overall a very good, crisp copy. First edition of a rare treatise on marriage by the Italian priest Tommaso Campastri (d. 1778), published eleven years before his more famous work, La Donna qual si Vorrebbe. OCLC notes one copy only, at Goettingen Melzi I, p. 401. Seller Inventory # 16235
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Title: La felicit del matrimonio. Opera Morale, ...
Publisher: Milano: Nella Stamperia di Antonio Agnelli, 1760.
Edition: 1st Edition
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