Tratado en loor de las mugeres y dela castidad, onestidad, constancia, silencio y iusticia : con otras muchas particularidades y varias historias : dirigido ala serenissima sennora infanta donna Catalina dAustria

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The work Tratado en loor de las mugeres y dela castidad, onestidad, constancia, silencio y iusticia : con otras muchas particularidades y varias historias : dirigido ala serenissima sennora infanta donna Catalina dAustria represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in UCLA Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Tratado en loor de las mugeres y dela castidad, onestidad, constancia, silencio y iusticia : con otras muchas particularidades y varias historias : dirigido ala serenissima sennora infanta donna Catalina dAustria

Title remainder

con otras muchas particularidades y varias historias : dirigido ala serenissima sennora infanta donna Catalina dAustria

Statement of responsibility

por Christoval Acosta Affricano

Creator

• Acosta, Cristóbal, approximately 1515-approximately 1592

Contributor

• Catalina Micaela, of Austria, Infanta of Spain, 1567-1597
• Ibáñez-Pacheco, Pedro, 1833-1885
• Sánchez, Gabriel, active 1878-1907

Bookseller

• Sánchez, Gabriel, active 1878-1907

Dedicatee

• Catalina Micaela, of Austria, Infanta of Spain, 1567-1597

Former owner

• Ibáñez-Pacheco, Pedro, 1833-1885

Subject

• Women -- Early works to 1800
• Women

Genre

• Early works to 1800

Language

spa

Summary

Only edition of the second Renaissance work composed in Spanish and devoted entirely to the conduct and education of women.

Cataloging source

CUY

Citation location within source

• CNCE 13628
• 1966
• no. 2
• volume 3, page 1244
• page 5

Citation source

• EDIT 16
• Palau y Dulcet, A. Manual del librero hispano-americano (2. ed.)
• Kelso, R. Doctrine for the lady of the Renaissance
• Gay, J. Bibliographie des ouvrages relatifs à l'amour, aux femmes, au mariage, et des livres facétieux pantagruéliques, scatologiques, satyriques, etc.
• Short-title catalogue of books printed in Italy and of Italian books printed in other countries from 1465 to 1600 now in the British Museum

Dewey number

396

Index

index present

LC call number

HQ1201

LC item number

.C68

Literary form

non fiction

Summary expansion

The work covers everyone from Eve to Henry VIII of England to Queen Isabella. Acosta has chapters on sex, leisure, women's property rights, their standing in the courts, women literati, scientists, philosophers and military leaders, and on abusive husbands. Throughout he emphasizes the powerfully positive symbols of women in prose, verse, art and emblems. The title engraving suggests that a life of chastity leads to death and dust, symbolized by the cleric standing on skeletons; Cupid hanging by his ankle suggests that unbridled sensuality also leads to an unsatisfying life