BOCCACCIO GIOVANNI Ein gar schone newe Hystori der hochen Li

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BOCCACCIO, GIOVANNI. Ein gar schone newe Hystori der hochen Lieb des Koniglichen Furstin Florio und von seiner lieben Bianceffora. 96 woodcut text illustrations. [4], 126 leaves. Folio, contemporary 1/4 blind-tooled sheep, wooden boards, brass catches, leather worn, spine damaged, missing portions from top and bottom, lacks clasps, front cover and opening leaves loose; marginal soiling through most of volume, scattered stains, blank upper and lower margins of title and blank upper margin of a1 excised, clean tears in h6 and n2, blank lower outer corner of last leaf torn off. Metz: Caspar Hochfeder, 2 August 1500

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Illustrated German version of Boccaccio's romance Il Filocolo, "the first Italian prose version of the famous (originally Byzantine) story of Fiorio and Biancifiore--their childhood love, separation, tribulations, eventual reunion, marriage, Christian conversion, and return home . . . with erudite digressions and autobiographical allusions, some more fantastic than others" (OCIL). GW 4471; BMC III, 664; Goff B747.