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Gualteruzzi, Carlo, editor (1500-1577) Libro di Novelle et di Bel Parlar Gentile.
Florence: Giunta, 1572.
Quarto, updated edition of this collection first published in 1525, including four new tales not included in the first edition, printer's woodcut device to title; bound in full dark green morocco by Capé, tooled in gilt, aeg., preliminary blank ***8 present in this copy; final leaf with very large Giunta woodcut device to verso; 8 3/4 x 5 3/4 in.
This collection of tales, Medieval, Tuscan, and Provençal in origin, are brief and elegant, striking a stylistic chord in their expression and approach.
