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Italian courtesy-books

Note 26 — THE FIFTY COURTESIES FOR THE TABLE, OF FRA BONVESINO[13] DA RIVA.

William Michael Rossetti translation

Several others must nevertheless have been written before or about the same time; for Barberino himself, in the exordium to his Reggimento e Costumi delle Donne, says—

‘There have been many who wrote books Concerning the elegant manners of men, but not of women.’

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