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Vázquez, Francisco (1475-c. 1525) D'Oliva Palmerino. Historia del Valorosissimo Cavalliere, di Nuovo Tradotto nell'Idioma Italiano.
Venice: Michele Tramezino, 1544.
First edition in Italian, octavo, translated from the Spanish by Mambrino Roseo (1500-1580), large woodcut printer's device to title, text in italic type throughout, spaces for initials left blank; bound in full 18th century Spanish marbled sheepskin, tooled ornately in gilt, 5 3/4 x 3 3/4 in.
Palmerín de Oliva is the first in a multi-part series of chivalric tales first published in the original Spanish in 1511. In Don Quixote, the book is mentioned by Cervantes as a volume found in the title character's library, and unfortunately consigned to the flames.
