Lodovico Dolce, 'Dialogo [...] della institution delle donne.
Secondo li tre stati, che cadono nella vita humana' (1545).
Edited by Helena Sanson.

MHRA Critical Texts Vol. 30
ISBN 978-1-907322-24-2
Spring 2014
Pbk £9.99 / $15.99 / EUR11.99

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A modern edition of the princeps of Lodovico Dolce’s Dialogo [...] della institution delle donne, published in Venice by Gabriele Giolito in 1545, this is a conduct literature text for women, in three books, which enjoyed good editorial success in sixteenth-century Italy.

Following a successful literary trend of the time, it is structured as a dialogue between two interlocutors, Flaminio and the widow Dorotea. It deals with ‘[l]a institutione della donna christiana, formando una perfetta vergine, una perfetta maritata et una perfetta vedova’ (fol. 6v).

Contents include: an historical introduction to the author and the text; the Italian text with notes; a glossary; an index of names cited in the text.

Helena Sanson is a Senior Lecturer in Italian at the University of Cambridge.

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Lodovico Dolce, 'Dialogo [...] della institution delle donne. Secondo li tre stati, che cadono nella vita humana' (1545). Edited by Helena Sanson.

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Lodovico Dolce, 'Dialogo [...] della institution delle donne.
Secondo li tre stati, che cadono nella vita humana' (1545).
Edited by Helena Sanson.