Peter Bichsel   Fine Books

Boccaccio, Giovanni di. Il Decamerone di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio cittadin Fiorentino. Di nuovo riformato da M. Luigi Groto Cieco d’Adria con permissione de’Superiori. Et con le dichiarationi avertimenti et un vocabulario fatto da M. Girolamo Ruscelli.

With woodcut title vignette,woodcut portrait of Luigi Groto and 10 woodcut illustrations (one for each day). (8), 564, (70) pp. 8vo. Contemp. vellum over 3 raised bands with gilt-tooled spine label. – Venezia, Fabio et Agostino Zoppini, et Onofrio Fari Compagnie, 1588.

First Zoppini edition, reissued 1590. Edited by the blind Italian poet Luigi Groto (1541–1585), who became very famous as a writer and public speaker. He published his own writings and edited texts by Ludovico Ariosto and Giovanni Maria Bonardo. The present „Decamerone“ is preceded by a brief biography of Boccaccio, written by Francesco Sansovino (1512–1586). Girolamo Ruscelli’s (1500–1566) dictionary of all words used by Boccaccio concludes this volume. – Brunet I, 1002. – Vellum worn and rubbed in parts. Back outer hinge partly cracking. Minor foxing in parts. Without the last blank sheet. – Best.-Nr. 26320