[Rarebooks] FS: 1588 Il Decameron by Boccaccio Greatly Discounted

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*TEMPORARILY GREATLY DISCOUNTED*.  *WAS $1,375. Now $450 on our site.*

*Boccaccio, Giovanni: *
Il Decamerone di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio Cittadin Fiorentino. Di nuovo
riformato da M. Luigi Groto Cieco D Adria Con permissione de'Superiori Et
Con le Dichiarationi Auertimenti, et un Vocabolario fatto da M. Girolamo
Ruscelli. Con privilegi. [The Decameron; The Decamerone]

Apresso Fabio, & Agostino Zoppini Fratelli, Et Onofrio Fari Compagai,
Venice, 1588. Hardcover. Condition: Very good +.IL Decamerone di Messer
Giovanni Boccaccio Cittadin Fiorentino. Di nuovo riformato da M. Luigi
Groto Cieco D’Adria […] by Giovanni Boccaccio. Venice: Apresso Fabio, &
Agostino Zoppini Fratelli, Et Onofrio Fari Compagni [RUSCELLI, Girolamo.
ed. 1588. Giovanni. The Decamerone by Messer Giovanni Boccaccio Cittadin
Fiorentino. Again reformed by M. Luigi Groto Blind D'Adria [...] by
Giovanni Boccaccio. Venice: Apresso Fabio, & Agostino Zoppini Brothers, Et
Onofrio Fari Compagni.]  A Very Good copy of IL DECAMERONE [The Decamerone]
by the great Medieval writer and poet Giovanni Boccaccio who also was a
correspondent of Petrarch, the great scholar and poet of Renaissance Italy,
who was one of the earliest humanists.  The Decamerone (also known as The
Decameron), a masterpiece of classical early Italian prose, presents a
collection of novellas offering tales of love -- both erotic and tragic --
as well as tales of wit, practical jokes, and life lessons, all of which
together provide a picture of life at the time of its writing.  It is a
highly-notable book of high literary merit which influenced Chaucer in his
writing of his magnum opus "The Canterbury Tales" (which were written
between 1387 and 1400 and which (in parallel to Coccaccio's Decamerone)
present portrait of English society -- particularly the Church -- at that
time.   The volume is in Very Good + condition and is bound in
three-quarters leather with marbled boards.  The upper right portion of the
original front free endpaper shows a small repair and some minor ink
notations and a number of the pages show some faint tide marking, mostly to
the margins.  The second front free endpaper has a presentation (in
Italian) dated July 16, 1792.  A few pages are wrongly numbered but are
otherwise proper and in their proper places, and page 431/432 is misbound
and thus found immediately following page 418.  A Very Good + and rather
attractive 1588 copy of this highly notable book. [Contents in Italian]

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