Amorous Fiammetta.
by Giovanni Boccaccio
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine
- Seller
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Scarborough , North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Greenish gold leatherette binding with gilt title on the spine. Gilt three ladies on the front board. All edges gilt. Limited to 550 copies.
English edition translated by Bartholomew Young (1587); Edited and with an introduction by K.H. Josling; Wonderful illustrations in vivid colour; a limited edition Giovanni Boccaccio was an Italian author and poet, a friend, student, and correspondent of Petrarch, and important Renaissance humanist, best known for the Decameron. Amorous Fiammetta, or The Elegy of Lady Fiammetta describes Fiammetta's passion for Panfilo, a Florentine merchant, and has been described as the first psychological novel in Western literature.
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- Bookseller
- Martin Frost (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- FB3041 /20
- Title
- Amorous Fiammetta.
- Author
- Giovanni Boccaccio
- Format/Binding
- Cloth binding
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited to 550 copies
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Mandrake Press.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1929
- Size
- 23 x29 x3cm
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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