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Advising an early marriage
VERGENOEGDE, Petrus de.De tien delicatessen des huwelyks: of de wederlegging van de tien vermakelykheden des huwelyks door Petrus de Vergenoegde. getrouwde. Nevens een St. Nikolaas Avond, en een berigt dat het raadsaam is te trouwen.      Amsterdam, Timotheus ten Hoorn, 1678. 12mo. Contemporary vellum. Engraved frontispiece and 10 full-page engravings. (8), 160, 45 pp. Original and only edition of a refutation of a book that had appeared under the pseudonym Hippolytus de Vrije ('The free Hippolyte'), in the same year: De tien vermakelijkheden van het huwelijk ('The ten amusements of marriage'). The author probably was the printer Hieronymus Sweerts (1629 - 1696) who had a popular, ironic and sometimes even light erotic satire on the pleasures of marriage, which immediately had such a success that a second edition had to be printed within a couple of weeks. The ironically described 'pleasures' start with the first courting and end with the festivities around the first born baby. The booklet, which is in fact an adaption of Les quinze joies de marriage, written by De la Valle in the beginning of the 15th century, is important for our knowledge of everyday life and domestic customs in the Dutch Golden Age. In this refutation, also published under a pseudonym (Petrus de Vergenoegde (' Peter Content')), the author attacks this, to his opinion too liberal book and tries to give a moralistic answer, stressing the importance, the necessity and the real delicacies of being married and advising an early marriage: De tien delicatessen des huwelyks. Ironically enough the book is illustrated with the same engravings as in the De tien vermakelijkheden. With a seperate title-page a poem is added describing the celebration of a St. Nicolas-evening, one of the famous Dutch traditions taking place on the 5th of December. Good copy.
Waller1626; De Kempenaar 476 (both - probably wrongly - suggesting that Hieronymus Sweerts is also the author of De delicatessen); Cat Scheepers I, 460; Introduction of: H. Sweerts, De tien vermakelijkheden van het huwelijk. Toel. E.K. Grootes & R. Winkelman (Amsterdam 1988).
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