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Boccaccio, Giovanni
Life of Dante Alighieri, Florentine poet, composed for Messer Giouanni Boccaccio, 1544
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Rome, for Francesco Priscianese Florentine, 1544. In 8°. Typographical frieze on the title page, delicate restorations on the first leaf, on the second a worm hole affects the text for three letters, splendid amateur binding in long-grain blue morocco with gilded frames and decorations on the spine, defects on the hinges. Ownership signature in pencil by Giuseppe Martini.
Specialist Notes
Valuable and rare edition. In the dedication of the Priscianese typographer to Giovan Lodovico Pio, we read "Now here is the Life of Dante written highly for Giovan Boccaccio: which I send you as a rare, & new, & worthy (if I am not mistaken) thing of all great Lord (...)". It is in fact the first independent edition of Boccaccio's famous Life of Dante.
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