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BOCCACCIO, GIOVANNI. L'Amorosa Fiammetta . . . di novo corretta et ristampata. 107, [1] leaves, including final blank. bound with his:Laberinto d'Amore . . . di novo corretto. 56, [4] leaves. and his:Ameto . . . con la dichiaratione de i luoghi difficili di Messer Francesco Sansovino. [6], 100, [2] leaves, including final blank. Together, 3 volumes in one. 8vo, 153x94 mm, contemporary limp vellum with titles written in humanistic hand in ink on front cover, backstrip darkened, partly detached, and missing small portion; internally immaculate; gilt edges, gauffered with parallel rows of dots along outer edges; modern cloth folding case. Venice: Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari, 1545; 1545; 1545
sammelband of prose fiction by boccaccio: second Giolito edition of Fiammetta, "the first example in fiction of modern psychological realism based entirely on bourgeois characters" (OCIL); first Giolito editions of the notoriously misogynistic Laberinto d'Amore and the pastoral romance Ameto. From the library of the Fugger banking family of Augsburg, in a binding characteristically used for Italian vernacular works in the collection, with their later shelf mark on the front free endpaper.
