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CRUDELI, Tommaso. L'Arte Di Piacere Alle Donne e Alle Amabili Compagnie Trattato Attributo al Dottore Tommaso Crudeli.
Parigi: Presso Giorgio Remond, 1762. First edition. With the bookplate of Dr. C.B. Farrar. 8vo., early 20th century decorated wrappers, (105)pp. Margin reinforced on verso of titlepage and facing page, some pages browned, wrappers worn with chips along the spine and at the spine ends but still a very good copy of a scarce book.
Tommaso Crudeli [1703-1745] Italian writer and free thinker, imprisoned by the Inquisition because of his involvement with English Freemasonry, as he acted as the Secretary for the Grand Lodge of England (in Florence). His literary works were put on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum and burned in Piazza della Signoria in Florence.