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[ WOMEN, LAW, ADULTERY - A MISOGYNISTIC BOOK
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NEVIZZANO, Giovanni,
[ Nuptial Forest ] - Silva nuptialis; in qua ex dictis Moder. per regulam et fallentias plurime questiones quottidie (...) in materia matrimonii; dotium; filiationis; Adulterii....
Lyon, Jean Moylin: Vincent de Portonariis, 1524. 4to, half-leather, 174 f.
A very curious work by Giovanni Nevizzano, Italian jurisconsult, professor at the University of Turin & at the University of Padua, who died in 1540. It contains various curious - and deliberately misogynistic - considerations on women, virginity, marriage, procreation, domestic life, the couple... Névizan thus mixes satirical writing & phallocratic legal considerations. In particular, he argues ironically that God did not send all the evil angels to hell; but that he placed some of them in the bodies of women... with the sole purpose of tormenting the male sex! All this does not prevent the author from taking a rather conciliatory look at adultery & the… Read More