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BANDELLO, MATTEO. Premier et Second Thome des Histoires Tragiques. French translation by Pierre de Boaistuau and François de Belleforest. 287, [1]; 312 [i. e., 299], [1] leaves, including final blanks. 8vo, 165x99 mm, 19th-century crimson morocco by Chambolle-Duru; contents washed with light residual toning. Morocco booklabels of Isidoro Fernández (1878-1963) on pastedowns, his gilt supra-libros added on covers. Paris: Jacques Macé, 1568
Selection of 36 stories from Bandello's collection of 214 novelle, "the largest and most influential . . . of the sixteenth century" (Wilkins). The Italian original was first published in 3 parts in 1554, with a fourth appearing posthumously in 1573. In various translations it was drawn upon by Shakespeare, Webster, Massinger, and Beaumont and Fletcher. Wilkins, page 232-34.
