DISPUTATIO PERJUCUNDA, qua Anonymus Probare Nititur Mulieres Homines non Esse:; Cui Opposita est Simonis Gedicci Sacros. Theologiae Doctoris Defensio Sexus Muliebrus, Qua singular Anonymi argumenta distinctis Thesibus Proposita Viriliter Enervantur. Editio Novissima

Hagae-Comitis: I. Burchornius, 1644. New edition. 12mo, 191. Bound in contemporary full brown calf, with marble end papers, rubbed along the hinges, slight losses to ther spine, lacks the leather label, little toning to the title page, but genrally a very clean tight copy. Erdman page 183; Graesse vol. 2, p. 409.; Brunet IV, 81.; Alle, The Concept of Women, Vol. 3, pp 164-66. ). The "Disputatio" was first issued under the title: "Disputatio nova contra mulieres. It was a satire on the Socinian method of argument. Acidalius (1567-1595), German scholar and critic (truncated) born in Brandenburg, who embraced Catholicism and was much esteemed for his Roman commentaries, comments on the religious group of Sociniens who asserted that women are not men (ie. thinking and reasonable beings). Gedik responded that if women were as noted by Acidalius , then they would not be humans! All of these books were first issued in the 16th century. Erdmann mentions just the one of them. (Inventory #: 59351)