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Tuke Thomas,Maddalena Parlati

Contro Il Trucco. A Discourse against Painting and Tincturing of Women.

Liguori Editore, 1998,

80.00 €

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(Roma, Italy)

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Publishers
Liguori Editore, 1998
Curator
Tuke Thomas,Maddalena Parlati
Binding description
H
Dust jacket
No
State of preservation
Fine
Binding
Hardcover
Inscribed
No
First edition
No

Description

A Discourse against Painting and Tincturing of Women. Wherein the abominable sinnes of Murther and Poysoning, Pride and Ambition, Adultery and Witchcraft, are set foorth & discovered. Whereunto is added the Picture of a Picture, or, The Character of a Painted Woman. 12mo, br. ed, pp.260, testo a fronte. english, latin and italian. An elaborate discourse by Thomas Tuke (fl. 1600-1656), the minister at St. Giles-in-the-Fields, London, arguing against facial cosmetics for women "Amongst which unhappie creatures, there are many, who have so betarrd their faces with these mixtures and slubber-sauces with paintings laied one upon another, in such sort that a man might easily cut off a curd or cheese-cake from either of their cheekes. O desperate madnesse; O hellish invention, O divelish custome." some pencil marks, ow fine.