ACIDALIUS, Valens, attr. Disputatio perjucunda, qua anonymus probare nititur mulieres homines non esse: cui opposita est Simonis Gedicci (...) Defensio sexus muliebris (...). Editio secunda. 1641 I. Burghoorn, sm. 12mo, later vellum (upper cover...
Estimation :
500 / 600
Adjudication :
Invendu
Description
stained), blind flat spine, red edges, 191 pp. (wormholes affecting the text of the last 4 ff., marg. repairs to the last 2 ff.).
New ed. (1st 1595) of this "misogynous" pamphlet attributed to Acidalius (also known as Valtin Havekenthal, 1567-1595), a German physician, critic and neo Latin poet, here with the "feminist" response of Simon Geddicus, a Lutheran scholar from Magdeburg. "Circulating in Silesia was a pamphlet satirizing the Socinians by showing that a literal interpretation of the Bible leads to ridiculous "proofs" — such as a "proof" that women are not human. The "proof" seems to have turned on taking the Latin word "homo" sometimes to mean "human being" and sometimes to mean "adult male". Acidalius was thought to have polished up the pamphlet to make it diverting (...) If he was the author (...) the joke went sour. Theologians were less than amused at the suggestion that women are not human, and the work was vigorously attacked" (Michael Nolan).
New ed. (1st 1595) of this "misogynous" pamphlet attributed to Acidalius (also known as Valtin Havekenthal, 1567-1595), a German physician, critic and neo Latin poet, here with the "feminist" response of Simon Geddicus, a Lutheran scholar from Magdeburg. "Circulating in Silesia was a pamphlet satirizing the Socinians by showing that a literal interpretation of the Bible leads to ridiculous "proofs" — such as a "proof" that women are not human. The "proof" seems to have turned on taking the Latin word "homo" sometimes to mean "human being" and sometimes to mean "adult male". Acidalius was thought to have polished up the pamphlet to make it diverting (...) If he was the author (...) the joke went sour. Theologians were less than amused at the suggestion that women are not human, and the work was vigorously attacked" (Michael Nolan).
