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Title

The nymphs of Fiesole, by Giovanni Boccaccio, with the woodcuts made by Bartolommeo de Giovanni for a lost quattrocento edition, which were used to illustrate various later texts and have now been reassembled and recut.

Author

Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.

Publication

Verona, Editiones Officinae Bodoni, 1952.

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Additional Authors

• Mardersteig, Hans.
• Goubourne, John.

Description

xi, 127(1) p., 1 l. illus.; 29 cm.

Alternative Title

Famous tragicall discourse of two louers.

Subject

Bartolomeo di Giovanni, active 1488

Note

• "This edition, illustrated with woodcuts by Bartolomeo di Giovanni recut by Fritz Kredel, has been printed ... in 225 copies ...
• Reprint with facsimile of original t.-p., of: A Famous tragicall discourse of two louers, Affrican, and Mensola, their liues infortunate loues, and lamentable deaths, together with the of-spring of the Florentines ... Newly translated out of Tuscan into French by Anthony Guerin ... And out of French into English by Io. Goubourne. London, Printed by Ia. R. for William Blackman, 1597.
• The illustrations were reproduced photographically and recut from the sixteen woodcuts of a 1568 Italian reprint and seven others of the original series found re-used in other sixteenth century works.--cf. "Postscript," by Hans Mardersteig, p. 117-[128]

Call Number

*KP (Officina Bodoni) (Boccaccio, G. Nymphs of Fiesole)

OCLC

12911235

Author

Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.

Title

The nymphs of Fiesole, by Giovanni Boccaccio, with the woodcuts made by Bartolommeo de Giovanni for a lost quattrocento edition, which were used to illustrate various later texts and have now been reassembled and recut.

Imprint

Verona, Editiones Officinae Bodoni, 1952.

Local Note

Number 83."

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Added Author

Mardersteig, Hans.

Goubourne, John. Translator

Research Call Number

*KP (Officina Bodoni) (Boccaccio, G. Nymphs of Fiesole)