BOCCACCIO, Giovanni Ameto ouer comedia delle nimphe fiorentine Venice per Gregorio de Gregori 1526
8vo. 95ff. (lacks the final blank). Title within an attractrive border made up of four blocks composed of birds and flowers, library stamp on title, in twentieth century brown morocco decorated in gilt to an early sixteenth century style, hinges rubbed.
A late, but not unattractive, edition of Boccaccio’s Ameto, a work in prose and verse written in about 1342 during Boccaccio’s separation from his beloved Fiammetta. Probably based on the French mediaeval tale Aucassin et Nicolette, it describes the civilising influence of love on the ferocious manners of the savage, in this case a huntsman softened by tales of love related by nymphs (one of whom is Fiammetta) whom he meets in the wood.Censimento CNCE 6270; Adams B2127; Sander 1058 (note); this edition not in Bacchi della Lega
£1400
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