DARDANO, LUIGI. La Bella e Dotta Difesa delle Donne in Verso, e Prosa. Large woodcut portrait of Dardano on title and last page. 151 leaves;

DARDANO, LUIGI. La Bella e Dotta Difesa delle Donne in Verso, e Prosa. Large woodcut portrait of Dardano on title and last page. 151 leaves; lacks the 5 unnumbered leaves at end comprising tract on childrearing and final blank. 8vo, old vellum; staining along top edge of last several leaves. Tipped to front pastedown is a late 19th-/early 20th-century newspaper cutting containing a denunciation of contemporary American womanhood. Venice: (Bartholomeo, detto l'Imperatore), 1554