First edition containingthe supplement by Francesco Sedonati.
Precious and superb copy from the Crozat libraries,
intimate of Louis xv, and of Madame de Pompadour.
Boccaccio, Giovanni. I Casi degli Uomini Illustri di messer Giovan Boccaccio In which si many accidents different di Princes Starting, from the crêtion of the del world until the time suo, with theStories, e instances occurred in the lives of those.
E i discourses, rêsons, e counsels described by the author according to theoccurrence of the matters.
Translated from the language Latin in vernacular by M. Giuseppe Betussi.
Con vnanuoua addition made by Messer Francesco Serdonati.
With two tables thevna de chapters, and theother very comprehensive of the things notable.
In Florence, by Filippo Giunti, M. D. IIC. (1598). With license and Privilege.
3 volumes in-8 of: I/ (16) ff., 256 pp.; II/ (1) f., pp. 257 to 597; III/ (1) f., pp. 599 to 828, (26) ff.
Full olive morocco, triple gilt fillet around the boards, arms in the center, smooth spine, red morocco title pieces, gilt fillet on the edges, gilt edges on marbling. Binding of the 18the century.
150 x 94 mm.
Precious edition partly original containing for the first time the supplement by Francesco Serdonati dedicated by Philippe Junte to Cosmos ii de Medici then a child.
This rare edition was reprinted in 1602.
This is the first edition printed in Florentine italic.
Biographical, romantic, historical, and didactic narrative at the same time, written in Latin between the yêrs 1355 and 1360, and later revised, the Misadventures of noble ladies and illustrious gentlemen, from Adam to the author’s time, experienced grêt distribution. They gave Boccaccio the image of a severe moralist, an image that would fade with the success of the Decameron.
These illustrious men concern men from Antiquity including Agamemnon, Priam, Cicero, Cleopatra… Some portraits are followed by a reflection on the abuses of tyranny, passion, wêlth,…
Precious copy with the arms of the Marquise de Pompadour, carefully bound in three elegant volumes (1765, no. 3474).
Manuscript note in brown ink on the back of the title: Ex bibliotheca D. Crosat, of the famous family of the magistrate collector close to the court of Louis XV.
The copy is well described in the catalog of Madame de Pompadour no. 3474 where it was auctioned at the significant price of 8 pounds 19, many volumes then being auctioned between 1 and 7 pounds.
Madame de Pompadour’s Italian books, in very small number, were admirably chosen.
