Il Decameron di Messer Giovanni Boccacci. Riscontrato Co’Migliori Testi e Postillato da Pietro Fanfani. Firenze: Felice Le Monnier, 1857.
Two volumes. Twelvemo. [vi], lix, [iii], 389, [1]; [iv], 459, [1] pp., including index in volume two. Bound in full vellum, edges stained red; first few leaves of volume one lightly foxed, front free end-paper lacking in first volume, otherwise a very good set.
Later Italian edition of Boccaccio’s masterpiece.
Boccaccio (1313-1321(?) - 1375) was an Italian author, poet, humanist, most famous for his poetry, and, of course, The Decameron (1349-1352). The Decameron is a medieval allegorical work, collected in one hundred small novellas, some being bawdy, some being tragic, some erotic, not unlike the Canterbury Tales. Like Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, it, too, has a framing device, which surrounds the main body of the tales and unifies.
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