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Vives, Juan Luis (1493-1540) De Officio Mariti Liber Unus. De Institutione Foeminae Christianae Libri Tres. De Ingenuorum Adolescentum ac Puellarum Institutione Libri Duo.
Basel: [Robert Winter, 1540].
Octavo, several manuscript signatures to title page; final leaf blank but for colophon and printer's woodcut device present in this copy; bound in later green morocco with marbled paper boards; 5 3/4 3 5/8 in.
The present collection includes works on the office of the husband; consisting of an instructional work on the duty of Christian women commissioned by Catherine of Aragon for the instruction of her daughter, Mary Tudor; and writings on the education of girls. In De Institutione Feminae Christianae, Vives lays out a chastity code for women that includes details on "gender order, restrictions on women's physical freedom of movement, regulations and instructions regarding women's clothing, and various rules for women's outward conduct. [...] Vives advocated a very traditional, patriarchal view of women, exhorting very strict gender segregation and female seclusion. He prescribed very tight restrictions on women's freedom, with a view to controlling female sexuality." (Quoted from Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist's Female Shame, Male Honor: The Chastity Code in Juan Luis Vives' De institutione feminae Christianae, published online in the Journal of Family History, January 18, 2012, Volume 37, Issue 2.)
[Together with]
Vives, Juan Luis (1493-1540)
Correctissima Colloquia.
Venice: Combi, 1662.
12mo, engraved title page, bound in half speckled sheepskin and paste paper boards, 4 7/8 x 2 3/4 in. (2)
"In their colloquies, Desiderius Erasmus and Juan Luis Vives capture schoolchildren's voices (speaking in Latin) discussing issues of importance in a conversational tone that might appeal to the young." (Quoted from Margaret L. King's Humanism, Venice & Women, Taylor & Francis, 2003.)
Rare edition, not in Worldcat, no copies of this edition in the auction record.
