Boccaccio John.ABAA
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1980288130Norwalk. : Easton Press. 1980. Hardcover full red leather raised bands gilt decorations all edges gilt silk endpapers ribbon marker. . Bookplate to pastedown otherwise fine no dustjacket as issued. . 4to. Illustrated by Fritz Kredel. Easton Press. hardcover books
1982289819Berkeley: University of California Press 1982. hardcover. near fine. Three volumes. 948 pages. 4to. cream cloth in publisher's box. Berkeley: The University of California Press 1982. Near fine.<br/><br/> A revision of the John Payne translation based on the holograph manuscript known as the Hamilton 90.<br/><br/> University of California Press unknown books
19772310645New York: W. W. Norton & Company 1977. 3rd Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Third printing. Spine lightly creased. 1977 Trade Paperback. xvi 334 pp. Selected translated and edited by Mark Musa and Peter E. Bondanella. "The stories have been chosen to represent the most notable of the author's themes and the most characteristic and influential examples of his narrative technique. All are in new translations by Mark Musa and Peter Bondanella which successfully capture Boccaccio's variations in diction and sentence structure. "Contemporary Reactions" includes Petrarch's letters to Boccaccio after completion of The Decameron and the responses of such Italian Renaissance figures as Leonardo Bruni Filippo Villani Giannozzo Manetti and Ludovico Dolce all of which have been translated for this edition. "Modern Criticism" includes interpretations by Ugo Foscolo Francesco De Sanctis Erich Auerbach Aldo D. Scaglione Wayne Booth Tzvetan Todorov Robert J. Clements and Marga Cottino-Jones. Thomas G. Bergin's important historical overview is published here for the first time while Ben Lawton's study of Pier Paolo Pasolini's filming of The Decameron and a general essay by the editors were written specially for this volume. W. W. Norton & Company paperback books
1927031203London: Peter Davies 1927. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Limited Edition of 520 bound in green paper boards with light wear. Jacket shows some slight rubbing at the corners with a few very small tears. Some slight discoloration to jacket with some darkening of the light cream colored jacket in places. Otherwise jacket in very good condition for its age. Binding is tight and text is clean and unmarked. Front and Rear free endpapers have dark discoloration marks similar to foxing but ina larger area. The original owner and subscriber's purchase and delivery slip are present and laid into the rear of the book. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 lbs 0 oz. Category: Modern First Editions; Antiquarian & Rare; Inventory No: 031203. Peter Davies unknown books
19482312538New York: Pocket Books 1948. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Harshberger Mac. Collector's Edition with publisher's pamphlet laid in. Boards lightly foxed. 1948 Hard Cover. 370 pp. "In the early summer of the year 1348 as a terrible plague ravages the city ten charming young Florentines take refuge in country villas to tell each other stories Pocket Books hardcover books
19492311217Garden City New York: International Collectors Library 1949. Reissue. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Palacios Rafael. Publisher's insert laid in explaining that this binding combines elements from an 1818 edition of Shelley's Revolt of Islam and an 1802 edition of Arabian Nights. Small blemish on front board ribbon marker end faded. 1949 Hard Cover. xxiv 542 pp. Blue-green boards gilt titles and decorations top edge gilt. Boccaccio's 14th century collection of 100 stories controversial at the time for its inclusion of erotic themes and important today for the details it provides about life in Italy at the time. Includes beautiful two-tone illustrations by Rockwell Kent. International Collectors Library hardcover books
196478855London:: George Allen and Unwin. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1964. Hardcover. B002BAGWLI . Translated from the Latin with an introduction and notes by Guido A. Guarino. First edition thus. Previous owner's a distinguished Renaissance scholar name on front free endpaper else very good in a very good dust jacket. . George Allen and Unwin, hardcover books
17786056Londra but Paris: Gian Claudio Molini 1778. Very Good/Boccaccio wrote this pastoral tale in the mid 1340s just as he began work on the Decameron where it would not have been out of place. A young shepherd unseen spies a group of naked nymphs bathing at the pool and falls in love with one of them. The plot includes a series of missed opportunities mistaken identities appeals to Venus goddess of love and plenty of nude bathing scenes. The text is based on the edition published in Florence 1568 with corrections. . iv 160 pages and engraved title page after Marillier. In mottled calf rebacked in the twentieth century with original spine. Gilt triple fillets on both boards; remains of gilt decoration on spine. Gilt turn-ins endleaves marbled in spirals. Gilt edges. Nice edition. Gamba 227 Gian Claudio Molini hardcover books
1981Embry 177876Franklin Library 1981. Bookplate to title page else fine. Illus by Jose Narro One-half black leather back decorative cloth stamped in gilt. Franklin Library, 1981. hardcover books
197481765NY:: Clarkson N. Potter. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1974. Hardcover. 0517514923 . Translated from the Italian. Illustrated by Harry Carter. First edition thus. Remainder dot on bottom edge else near fine in a near fine dust jacket. . Clarkson N. Potter, hardcover books
197421000NY: Clarkson N. Potter. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1974. Hardcover. 0517514923 . Translated from the Italian. Illustrated by Harry Carter. First edition thus. Remainder dot on top edge else near fine in a near fine two short closed edge tears at the base of the spine dust jacket. . Clarkson N. Potter hardcover books
1904D14606Cambridge: The Riverside Press 1904. Hardcover. Near Fine. 76 pp. With 5 line woodcut decorative red initials woodcut portrait of Dante on title-page red woodcut printers device. Small folio bound in publisher's quarter vellum over brown paper boards title gilt on spine uncut. One of 265 copies. A beautiful printing in English of Boccaccio's eulogy of Dante Alighieri designed by Bruce Rogers at The Riverside Press. A fine copy printed on thick hand made paper. Ex Libris stamp of Lorraine & Dick Laub on front flyleaf plus a letter concerning the sale of the book from the Riverside Press dated February 17 1905. <br/><br/> The Riverside Press hardcover books
1940JC14528Paris: Gibert Jeune 1940. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Traduit de l'Italien par Antoine Le Maçon. Illustrations de Brunelleschi. Limited edition this being number 2445. Nicely rebound in 3/4 red leather and marbled paper original wrappers bound in. Attractive illustrations in color. Superb copy. <br/><br/> Gibert Jeune hardcover books
1627177918Venice: Per il Valentini 1627. Hardcover. Poor sewing coming undone foxing and staining of vellum present marks on pastedown endpapers missing otherwise complete. Bound in vellum on board with 3 raised bands. Woodblock capitals and incidental designs. 20 leaves 247 leaves. "Of the geneology of the gods." Binding copy. Fifteen books dealing with "all the gods of the gentiles" along with the life of Giovanni Boccaccio. Per il Valentini hardcover books
1552184537Venetia: V. Valgrisio 1552. Leather bound. Fair heavy wear to leather boards with sections worn off. Expected age toning to pages but text is otherwise clear and binding is fairly tight. Bound in brown leather boards; five raised bands and gilt tooling on spine; all edge red tinted; red and blue marble illustrated end papers; bw illustrated title page; 10 487 10 pp. The rear of the book contains a separate section titled "Vocabolario Generale di Tutte le Voci Vsate dal Boccaccio." which is 67 pp. Text in Italian. "La vita di m. Giovan Boccaccio descritta da m. Francesco Sansovino": p. 1-6. V. Valgrisio unknown books
19394447Bari: Laterza 1939. Very Good/Published in the Scrittori d'Italia series. 22 cm; 262 pages. Original brown printed wraps. Unopened. Old bookplate on verso of upper wrap; owner's blindstamp on series title page. Pencil notation on upper wrap. Shelf mark applied to spine. Slight tear at upper joint; some slight shelf wear. Laterza paperback books
1574D11148Venice: Giovanni Antonio Bertano 1574. Paperback. Very Good. 4to 204 x 148mm. 1 16 263pp. 2 leaves including final blank. Signatures: A-KK 8. Front flyleaf with likely 18th-century half-title added in manuscript calligraphic script over undulating ownership inscription on ribbon De Me Giovanni Agostino Panater and palm or quill on island in sea with ship signature repeated on title. Woodcut printers device of Bertano of young stork bring food to decrepid parent in the nest and motto on filial piety Pietas Homini Tutissima Virtus Compassion is the safest power. Few woodcut initials throughout. Italian translation by Giovanni Betussi. Dedicated to Count Collaltino di Collalto. Contemporary limp vellum ms. title to spine; spine darkened head cap chipped with loss text block loose in binding; intermittent browning title with old owners signatures cancelled minor marginal worming added half-title with ink oxidation. The whimsical added title complements this monumental Italian humanist work; a defense of poetry and a synthesis of ancient mythological sources which justified the study of pagan literature within a Christian context. <br/><br/>Betussis Italian translation of Boccaccios medieval work on progeny in classical times a veritable mythological encyclopedia that aimed to solve questions about lines of succession. Boccaccios Genealogia sought to preserve the past from oblivion by creating an almanac of inter-related families including the competing noble houses in order to organize lines of descent. With the Genealogia Boccaccio aimed to solve contradictory accounts of hereditary matters by assuming the existence of pagan gods and organizing their progeny - Jupiter I and Jupiter II for instance. Perhaps most contentious was Boccaccios identification of Demogorgon as the ultimate progenitor of all pagan divinities description starting on page 5 who was also associated with Satans netherworld conspirators. The Genealogia reputedly had been copied and transmitted before its completion apparently without the consent of Boccaccio. The earliest Latin editions all follow the first of 1472. This is a later edition of Giuseppe Betussis Italian translation of the Genealogia; Betussis first was printed in Venice by Comino da Trino di Monferrato in 1547. Nearly a dozen subsequent editions follow this date well into the seventeenth century. Betussi was a prominent man of letters in Paduas Accademia and was at the avant-garde of those promoting the substitution of Italian for Latin as the language of scholarly literature. To his edition Betussi added a ten-page biography of Boccaccio and alphabetical indices corresponding to page numbers not book or chapter. The Genealogia became a standard reference works for readers who wished to disentangle the complexities of Greco-Roman mythology. The work was enormous in scope covering approximately 950 individuals groups and beasts both named and unnamed in fifteen books and 723 chapters with over a thousand citations from Greek Roman medieval and Trecento authors. Near the end of the sixteenth century the Genealogia while mostly out of the public eye still provided source material for numerous authors including Edmund Spenser and his work on Christianized paganism. This edition rare OCLC lists one other in Toulouse. Giovanni Antonio Bertano paperback books
1590D6205Venice: appresso Fabio e Agostino Zoppini fratelli e Onofrio Farri compagni 1590. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to 210 x154mm. 8 544pp 92 index epithets glossary by Ruscelli. Collation: ast. 4; A-2M 8; 2N 2; 2O-2R 8; 2S 4. Woodcut printers device to title. Oval woodcut portrait of Luigi Groto Cieco dAdria 1541-1585 facing first text page 10 woodcut illustrations numerous woodcut initials most historiated with griffins putti other figures or foliage and decorative chapter head- and tailpieces. Text in italic type; headlines chapter headings and marginalia in Roman. Printed marginalia. Early vellum; title with upper margin stained cancelled inscription and small tear some wear mostly on preliminaries; joints starting. Collection inscription in abbreviated Italian on front pastedown dated 1841 possibly from a Jesuit Society. Early booksellers stamp C. Simms of Manchester. <br/><br/>Good large quarto copy of Giovanni Boccaccios Decameron redacted by Luigi Groto 1541-1582 from the edition edited by Girolamo Ruscelli 1500s-1556 and first published two years previously. Groto a minor Venetian writer reworked Boccaccios famous tale; retaining parts of the original parable but also creating his own tangents. Groto for instance created a predicament concerning a young man who finds himself confronted by three different ladies he has been secretly courting. When his deceit is discovered he must answer as to which of them is his true love. The lengthy narration of the amoroso imbroglio is Grotos own literary stamp and he hoped with these revisions he would gain literary fame stating I will give life and light to Boccaccio and he will do likewise for me . I will rescue him from darkness and burial and he in turn will rescue me from obscurity Ironically Grotos retelling of the Decameron remains known for it deformations of the tale rather than its celebration. Each of the ten sections are preceded by an overview written by Ruscelli the well-known editor of Ptolemys Geographia of 1754 and a large woodcut illustration depicting narrative scenes of the Decameron tale. Brunet I 1002; STC Italy I: p.256. appresso Fabio e Agostino Zoppini fratelli e Onofrio Farri compagni hardcover books
172928931Florence: Philippo di Guntia 1729. Large 8vo. 9 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches. 7 284 ff. Contemporary vellum spine lettered direct in gilt covers a bit soiled and bowed<br/> <br/>The classic masterpiece of early Italian prose.<br/> <br/>This series of one hundred novellas set against the background of a plague-ridden Florence would have a profound influence on Renaissance literature throughout Europe. Although dated 1527 on the title this edition edited by Stefano Orlandinin and printed at the cost of Salvatore Ferrari was in fact printed in Venice in 1729 as a facsimile of the Giunta 1527 edition. It is sometimes referred to as the Consul Smith edition after Joseph Smith 1682-1770 the British consul at Venice and noted book collector who was involved in its production.<br/> <br/>Adams B 2147; Brunet I 999; Graesse I 440. Philippo di Guntia unknown books
1929122483London: The Mandrake Press 1929. Softcover. VG- Covers faded and slightly worn. M. Leone. Light green paper over very thin boards; Gilt titling at spine; Gilt illustration to front cover; All edges gilt; 160 pp.; Profusely illustrated in color. Reprinted from the original English edition translated by Bartholomew Young 1587; Edited and with an introduction by K.H. Josling; Wonderful illustrations in vivid color; Number 281 of 550 copies in this edition. The Mandrake Press paperback books
1934307366London: Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press and published for the press by Basil Blackwell 1934. #159 of 325 copies. Title pages printed within woodcut borders woodcut decorations throughout by R. J. Beedham and E. Joyce Francis after those found in the 1492 Venetian edition of Boccaccio printed by Joannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis decorative initial letters and running headlines printed in blue. 319; 268pp. 2 vols. 4to. This copy is one of an unspecified but small number of copies bound in full blue morocco t.e.g. on the rough rest uncut Colin Franklin notes the standard binding as "half bound in morocco on linen". #159 of 325 copies. Title pages printed within woodcut borders woodcut decorations throughout by R. J. Beedham and E. Joyce Francis after those found in the 1492 Venetian edition of Boccaccio printed by Joannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis decorative initial letters and running headlines printed in blue. 319; 268pp. 2 vols. 4to. Printed at the Shakespeare Head Press and published for the press by Basil Blackwell unknown books
1935313189Oxford: Printed at The Shakespeare Head Press and published for the Press by Basil Blackwell 1935. No. 132 of 325 copies. The text for this edition is from Isaac Jaggard's English translation of 1620. The illustrations are from a 1492 edition published in Venice by the De Gregorii brothers. 4to. Three quarters blue morocco and cloth sides t.e.g. rest uncut. Minor fading to spine else fine. No. 132 of 325 copies. The text for this edition is from Isaac Jaggard's English translation of 1620. The illustrations are from a 1492 edition published in Venice by the De Gregorii brothers. 4to. A handsomely bound copy of this modern fine press edition of the Decameron. Printed at The Shakespeare Head Press and published for the Press by Basil Blackwell unknown books
1922267779San Francisco: John Henry Nash 1922. hardcover. near fine. Translated from the Italian by Philip Henry Wicksteed. Text in red and black. 53pp. Slim folio marbled boards; San Francisco: Printed by John Henry Nash 1922. Near fine.<br/><br/> One of 250 numbered copies. Printed in Inkunabula an adaptation of the type used by Erhard Ratdolt in his Kalendarium of 1476. Ransom p. 360.<br/><br/> John Henry Nash unknown books
1963045570New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press 1963. Translated with an introduction and notes by Guido A. Guarino. xxxix 257p. b/w illus. lightly chipped dj. Rutgers University Press unknown books
1942043010Torino: Editrice Libraria Italiana 1942. Passi scelti da tutte le opere in volgare dal Buccolicum Carmen e dalle Epistole con introduzioni critiche e commento di Carlo Grabher. viii 451p. original stiff printed wrappers mostly unopened bit of scattered foxing on the first few preliminary leaves. Editrice Libraria Italiana unknown books
