1549 ILLUSTRATED CHIVALRIC NOVEL by Louis ALAMANNI antique Girone il cortese

ALAMANNI, Louis (1495-1556).

Girone il cortese.


Venice: Comin da Trino, 1549

Illustrated first edition (second overall) of this chivalric novel by Luigi Alamanni.


Size 6 1/4 by 8 1/4"  (203 x 145mm)

 Title-page within an elegant woodcut frame with a portrait of an ancient poet crowned with laurel,

24 woodcuts in the text at the beginning of each chapter,

woodcut initials,

text in italics in two columns


Trimmed, some marginal light staining

 First half of the 20th century binding with leather spine and gilt title.


Provenance:

Della libreria di D. Cesare Belli...a 1696 (ownership inscription to title-page)

Text in Italian
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