Search Results: la geneologia de gli dei gentili by boccaccio giovanni

Venice, Italy, 1644. Leather (Vellum). Good. ITALIANO. Contemporary vellum, remains of ties. Internally clean. Pages age tanned, but quite readable. Written in an italic font. Printer's device; head and tail pieces, initials. 9 in. [10], 210 c., 88, 99, [1] p. 4° (26 cm )The 'Rimario' of Udeno Nisieli [pseud. of Benedetto Fioretti] has special t.p. and separate paging. Translated by Giuseppe Betussi. Fifteen parts, followed by "Elucidario Poetico, Per Ordine d'Alphabetto trattato. The last two books of the work, include a defense of poetry. "...a mythography or encyclopedic compilation of the...family relationships of...Ancient Greece and Rome, written in Latin...Boccaccio undertook the project at the request of Hugh IV of Cyprus. The first version was completed in 1360, and [Boccaccio] continually corrected and revised the work until his death in 1374...In his lifetime and for two centuries afterwards it was considered his most important work...It remained the most important mythological manual… Read More

Venice: 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 Gio[vanni] Agostino Panater” and palm (or quill?) on island in sea with ship (signature repeated on title). Woodcut printer’s 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… Read More