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BOCCACCIO, GIOVANNI. Genealogiae deorum. 13 full-page woodcut genealogical diagrams. 162 leaves. Roman and Greek types. Folio, 315x214 mm, later 19th-century vellum with chipped morocco lettering piece; marginal soiling and old scored inscription on title, minor dampstaining along top edges, otherwise generally quite clean internally. (Venice: Bonetus Locatellus for Octavianus Scotus, 23 February 1494/95)
First published in 1472, " . . . the most massive and the most erudite of the works of Boccaccio . . . a mythological encyclopedia within which he presents in a genealogical arrangement all the mythological lore in any way accessible to him . . . For his younger contemporaries, including Chaucer, and for scholars of the next few generations, the Genealogia was a mine of information"--Wilkins, page 111. GW 4478; BMC V, 444; Goff B753.<
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