1524 POST-INCUNABULA G. BOCCACCIO Ametoover Comedia Nimphe Florintine antique

BOCCACCIO, Giovanni (1313-1375).

Ameto, over Comedia del le Nimphe Florintine.

[Venice: Nicolo Zopino..., 1524]



95, [1, blank] leaves.


Elaborate woodcut title-page border, woodcut device on last leaf, decorative woodcut initial letters.

Bound in nineteenth-century full stiff vellum, brown gilt morocco lettering label on spine, marbled edges.

A RARE EARLY EDITION OF THIS PROSE NARRATIVE BY BOCCACCIO.

This text is interspersed with poems in terza rima, after the example of Boethius and Dante's Vita Nuova. Written in 1341-1342, while Boccaccio was in Florence caring for his elderly father and separated from hsi beloved Fiammetta in Naples, this work is about the civilizing influence of love, the pastoral framework of this piece strongly influenced subsequent Arcadian literature.

Some soiling to boards,  

Very good.

Adams B2126.

Size 4 by 6"

Text in Italian
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