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GUALTERUZZI, CARLO, editor. Libro di novelle, et di bel parlar gentile. [28], 154 [i.e. 165], [3] pages, including blank 3*6 and final register/colophon leaf. 4to, 19th-century panelled black morocco, scuffed; scattered light foxing. Florence: Stamperia dei Giunti, 1572
Collection of tales first published in 1525, "deriving from many sources--some classical and medieval, but mainly French and to a lesser extent Provençal and Italian. Their distinctive rhetorical and stylistic ideal is the brief, effective, and elegant turn of phrase (motto), which is made to dominate a series of traditional narrative genres" (OCIL). Gamba 687.
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