[Rarebooks] 1588 Il Decameron by Boccaccio Greatly Discounted

[Allington Books]

The 1588 copy of "The Decameron" has sold.

Best Wishes to All,

Stephen


Stephen Johnson
Allington Antiquarian Books, LLC
Rare and Collectible Books, both Antiquarian and Modern
www.allingtonbooks.com
336-414-0435


On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 9:54 AM Allington Books <allingtonbooks at gmail.com>
wrote:

> *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]
>
> Stephen Johnson
> Allington Antiquarian Books, LLC
> Rare and Collectible Books, both Antiquarian and Modern
> www.allingtonbooks.com
> 336-414-0435
>