Academical discourses upon several choice and pleasant subjects / written by the learned and famous Loredano ; Englished by J.B.

Title

Academical discourses upon several choice and pleasant subjects / written by the learned and famous Loredano ; Englished by J.B.

Author

Loredano, Giovanni Francesco, 1607-1661.

Publication

London :: Printed by Tho. Mabb ... and Margaret Shears ...,

1664.

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English literature -- Translations from Italian.

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Contents

• title page
• imprimatur
• THE Preface.
• THE Translator TO THE READER.
• A TABLE OF THE Several Discourses.
• ACADEMICAL Discourses.
  • I. What Colour is most proper and convenient for a Lovers Face.
  • II. That Silence is the true Father of Love.
  • III. What thing does most prejudice the Beauty of the Face.
  • IV. What is the greatest Favour that a Lover can receive from a Lady of Honor.
  • V. Whether the Rose do presage Felicity, or Infelicity to a Lover.
  • VI. Wherefore in Cyprus they Por∣trayd Venus with a Beard.
  • VII. What is the manner of the Flo∣rentine Kiss, and from whence came its Original?
  • VIII. Wherefore Physitians affect to weare great Beards.
  • IX. That Woman is more faithful to Man; then Man to Woman.
  • X. Whether blushing be a sign of Vertue.
  • XI. Whether one can Kiss, their be∣loved without Lasciviousness or Sensuality.
  • XII. Wherefore it is said, that Achillis Sphear, did both wound and heal.
  • XIII. Wherefore Old people sleep ordi∣narily less than young ones.
  • XIV. Whether Gifts or Stealth's do most felicitate Lovers.
  • XV. Wherefore Pythagoras prohibi∣ted the use of Beanes.
  • XVI. In Dispraise of Women.
  • XVII. What naturall defect is the most Excusable.
  • XVIII. Wherefore great Men ordinarily do not favour vertuous Per∣sons reduced to necessity.
  • XIX Which is most potent to beget affection.
    • The Plea for Weeping.