This is a critical edition of the Latin text of Book I of the De Institutione Feminae Christianae of Juan Luis Vives together with facing English translation. The work was written in 1523 and dedicated to Catherine of Aragon for the instruction of her daughter Princess Mary. It was later thoroughly revised and the changes introduced are of great interest for the history of the text. The De Institutione is considered to be the most important treatise of the Renaissance on the education of women, cited and imitated throughout ...
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This is a critical edition of the Latin text of Book I of the De Institutione Feminae Christianae of Juan Luis Vives together with facing English translation. The work was written in 1523 and dedicated to Catherine of Aragon for the instruction of her daughter Princess Mary. It was later thoroughly revised and the changes introduced are of great interest for the history of the text. The De Institutione is considered to be the most important treatise of the Renaissance on the education of women, cited and imitated throughout the sixteenth century. Although Vives sometimes betrays traditional attitudes towards the status of women, he gives expression to many liberalizing humanistic ideas. In all, it is a clear public acknowledgment of women's probity, dignity and capability for learning.
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Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 9004106596. KB50...xxviii, [ii], 218, [iii] pp. Bibliographic references, indices, verba memorabilia. Octavo. Light and dark olive green glossy dust jacket with tasteful black and white print. Slight bit of shelf wear to jacket, book itself is clean and unmarked, tight. Very nice copy. This edition offers a new Latin text with a double apparatus and facing page English translation with notes. This Liber Primus contains book one of Vives' three tracts on women (maidenhood, marriage and widowhood).; Selected Works of J. L. Vives; Vol. 6; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 218 pages.
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Fine Like New jacket. Sealed in publisher's shrink wrap, never opened. Minor shelf wear may be present due to storage. As New Condition-Over 500, 000 Internet Orders Shipped.
