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BOCCACCIO, Giovanni Amorosa visione…nellaquale si contengono cinque triumphi…Apologia di Gieronimo Claricio…contro detrattori della poesia del Boccaccio. Venice Niccolo d’Aristotile detto Zoppino 1531

8vo. 120ff. (including the final blank). Title printed in red and black, woodcut portrait of Boccaccio on title-page, device at end, brown oilstain in inner margins throughout, heavier in quire B, in eighteenth century Italian vellum, 2 nineteenth century labels on spine.

Second edition – the first appeared in Milan ten years earlier – of Boccaccio’s allegorical poem in which he finds, and loses, his Fiammetta in a castle of earthly delights. The work is heavily influenced by Dante’s Commedia.Censimento CNCE 6284; Bacchi della Lega p.131 ‘riputa dai bibliografi non ispregevole affato’; not in Adams; RLIN locates only the copy at the University of Minnesota Libraries.

£850

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