Provenance: ex libris and signed handwritten ownership long note from Lieutenant-colonel Sir Edward Baker on the endpaper and first blank, successive exlibris mark of “Dott. This edition is scarcer than the well-known 1729 Orlandelli’s one and different from it under a few aspects: the 1729 edition is lacking the two copper engravings, the life of Boccaccio from Filippo di Matteo Villani and the list of the subscribers. One of the first ‘counterfeit’ or facsimile ever known, the 1725 edition imitating the famous Giuntina of 1527.

Two title-pages, both of them representing the Giunti’s device (also present at the end of the main text) in woodcut (at the verso of the second one – which is actually imitating the original from then 1527 – the true place and year of printing, accompanied by the Edlin’s printer mark), frontispiece and Author’s portrait engraved on copper (the frontispiece by Bernard Baron and the portrait by L. 49 + sheet (1b) professional restores at both the hinges, the front board a bit weaker due to the restore, extremely fresh and clean pages inside, a very good copy with wide edges overall. Giovanni Boccaccio (J December 21, 1375) was an Italian author and poet, a friend and correspondent of Petrarch, an important Renaissance humanist in his own right and author of a number of notable works, including On Famous Women, the Decameron and his poems in the vernacular. Full coeval leather, gilt frames on both the boards, gilt title at the spine as well as some other impressions, sprayed fore-edges quarto, cm 21,8 x 15,3 sheets (2b) + II + (9) + 284 + (6) + pp.

Giovanni Boccaccio nuovamente corretto et con diligentia stampato – 1527 (but 1725, Londra per Tommaso Edlin). These stories show us early capitalism during a moment of crisis and revelation.BOCCACCIO Giovanni – Il Decameron di messer Giovanni Boccaccio (Il Decamerone di M. Here are love and jealousy, passion and pride – and a shrewd calculation of profit and loss which heralds the rise of a dynamic merchant class. His Decameron hovers between the fading glories of an aristocratic past – the Crusades, the Angevins, the courts of France, the legendary East – and the colourful squalor of contemporary life, where wives deceive husbands, friars and monks pursue fleshly ends, and natural instincts fight for satisfaction. Boccaccio makes the incredible believable, with detail so sharp we can look straight into the lives of people who lived six hundred years ago. In their Tuscan villas, seven young women and three young men tell tales to recreate the world they have lost, weaving a rich tapestry of comedy, tragedy, ribaldry and farce.īoccaccio’s Decameron recasts the storytelling heritage of the ancient and medieval worlds into perennial forms that inspired writers from Chaucer and Shakespeare down to our own day. In Florence, plague has carried off one hundred thousand people. The Black Death is sweeping through Europe. A new version of John Payne’s Victorian translation, with an Introduction by Cormac O Cuilleanain.ġ348. Buy Il Decamerone by Giovanni Boccaccio from Waterstones today Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over 25.

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