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First published in 1548, On the Beauty of Women purports to record two conversations shared by a young gentleman, Celso, and four ladies of the upper bourgeoisie in the vicinity of Florence. One afternoon Celso and the ladies consider universal beauty. On a subsequent evening, they attempt to fashion a

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Excerpt from Of the Beauty of Women: Dialogue The author, Agnolo Pireu {uola, was born in 1493 at Florence, where be dried about 1546. His life, it appears, was not peculiarly exemplary, altbougb be was a cburcbman bis writings, too, are not all. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds