Beschreibung:

8°., 86 num. ff., 2 (1 blank) ff. - 24 num. ff., with two different woodcut devices and several historiated initials in the text. Contemporary vellum Gamba, Novelle 129 f.; Papanti 195; Grendler, Critics 231, 53. Lando s major work in which he undertakes to contradict all sorts of common opinions presenting arguments for paradoxes instead. In a way he does follow an old tradtion of philosophical argumentation when he claims for instance that poverty is better than wealth. His criticism of society, the church and authorities is though rather harsh in places and led to the title being put on the index of forbidden books. - Here with the rare and even more absurd confutation that has been published anonymously and in which Lando, as if he were an antagonist, attacks his own work and does his best to prove yet again the contrary of what he had just established. This again gives ample opportunity for criticism of society and the authorities.

Bemerkung:

- Endpapers with old annotations, a little browning, somewhat dusty, first and last leaves with dog s ears and a little fraying binding wrinkled.