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1955réf. 172300New York: Modern Library 1955. Hardcover. Near Fine. Reprint. Translated from the Italian by Frances Winwar. 666pp. Owner name rear endpaper small rust stains on endpapers still near fine. Modern Library hardcover books
1904réf. 190912London: Chatto & Windus 1904. Hardcover. Very Good. Reprint. Fine-paper edition. Small octavo. 555pp. Owner name sunned spine tears to the joints about very good. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
réf. 264818London: Published For the Trade no date. Hardcover. Good. Reprint. Illustrated by Leopold Flameng. Owner name hinges cracked covers lightly worn and soiled corners and spine ends rubbed with a few small tears spine slightly faded with label chipped and tanned good only. A collection of 100 tales told over seven days by the fictional characters of seven ladies and three young men. Published For the Trade hardcover books
1827réf. 009683Firenze: Il Magheri 1827. Marbled boards/Leather Spines. Very Good. 1827-8. 5 volumes in 3 books. Leather spines with pressed gilt titles marbleized paper-backed boards. Text in Italian. Wear to corners rubbing to cover edges and spine ends and edges remarkably clean text with only very occasional scattered foxing. Some light chipping to spine of Vol. I-II first book which has a bookplate at front pastedown. Original pink place-keeping ribbons present. The Decameron is a collection of medieval allegorical short stories written in the mid-14th century and is considered central to the Western canon influencing writers ranging from Geoffrey Chaucer to George Eliot. Il Magheri unknown books
1980réf. 90955Norwalk:: Easton Press. Fine. 1980. Hardcover. Translated from the Italian by Edward Hutton. Collector's edition. Small quarto fully bound in red leather with gilt lettering and design raised bands along spine all edges gilt silk moire endpapers sewn-in ribbon book mark. Fine.; 536 pages . Easton Press, hardcover books
1979réf. 101576Englewood Cliffs:: Prentice-Hall. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1979. Hardcover. 0137503075 . Illustrated with drawings by Bill Gow and black and white photographs by Paul Jacobs. First printing. Near fine in a very good some light edge wear and age toning dust jacket. . Prentice-Hall, hardcover books
1931réf. 128443New York: Rarity 1931. Hardcover. Very Good. Very good hardcover. Text clean. Illustrated. Spine faded. Rarity hardcover books
1940réf. JC14528Paris: Gibert Jeune 1940. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Traduit de l'Italien par Antoine Le Maçon. Illustrations de Brunelleschi. Limited edition this being number 2445. Nicely rebound in 3/4 red leather and marbled paper original wrappers bound in. Attractive illustrations in color. Superb copy. Gibert Jeune hardcover books
1968réf. 95724Norwalk:: Heritage Press. Near Fine. 1968. Hardcover. B088HBWDVR . Translated from the Italian by Edward Hutton. A reprint of the Limited Editions Club edition. "Sandglass" laid in. About fine in like slipcase. . Heritage Press, hardcover books
1977réf. 51586Franklin Center:: Franklin Library. Near Fine. 1977. Hardcover. B002S0QKIQ . Translated from the Italian by G. H. McWilliam. Limited edition. Thick octavo fully bound in blue leather with gilt lettering and design raised bands along spine all edges gilt silk moire endpapers sewn-in ribbon bookmark. Near fine.; 644 pages . Franklin Library, hardcover books
1924réf. 68857Berlin:: Verlag Neufeld & Henius. Very Good. 1924. Hardcover. Complete in two volumes. Text is in German - translated from the Italian. Illustrated with color plates by Lucian Zabel. First edition thus. Small folios half bound in light brown leather with gilt lettering and elaborate design along the spines blue decorated paper covered boards all edges red marbled endpapers. Both volumes have a previous owner's name on page 13 moderate edge wear else very good. . Verlag Neufeld & Henius, hardcover books
1923réf. 362579Berlin: Volfsverband der Bucherfreunde / Wegweiser-Verlag 1923. Hardcover. Very Good. 16mo. White papercovered boards stamped in gilt on front board and spine. 50pp. From the Decameron translated by Karl Federn. Illustrated with eight original drawings by Adolf Propp. Text in German. Yapped edges worn one inch tear at spine head boards soiled else very good. Volfsverband der Bucherfreunde / Wegweiser-Verlag hardcover books
1978réf. 74376n.p.:: Miller Graphics. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1978. Hardcover. B0012Z90MQ . Translated by J. Peter Tallon. Color illustrations throughout. First edition. Very good in a very good dust jacket. . Miller Graphics, hardcover books
1574réf. D11148Venice: Giovanni Antonio Bertano 1574. Paperback. Very Good. 4to 204 x 148mm. 1 16 263pp. 2 leaves including final blank. Signatures: A-KK 8. Front flyleaf with likely 18th-century half-title added in manuscript calligraphic script over undulating ownership inscription on ribbon De Me Giovanni Agostino Panater and palm or quill on island in sea with ship signature repeated on title. Woodcut printers device of Bertano of young stork bring food to decrepid parent in the nest and motto on filial piety Pietas Homini Tutissima Virtus Compassion is the safest power. Few woodcut initials throughout. Italian translation by Giovanni Betussi. Dedicated to Count Collaltino di Collalto. Contemporary limp vellum ms. title to spine; spine darkened head cap chipped with loss text block loose in binding; intermittent browning title with old owners signatures cancelled minor marginal worming added half-title with ink oxidation. The whimsical added title complements this monumental Italian humanist work; a defense of poetry and a synthesis of ancient mythological sources which justified the study of pagan literature within a Christian context. Betussis Italian translation of Boccaccios medieval work on progeny in classical times a veritable mythological encyclopedia that aimed to solve questions about lines of succession. Boccaccios Genealogia sought to preserve the past from oblivion by creating an almanac of inter-related families including the competing noble houses in order to organize lines of descent. With the Genealogia Boccaccio aimed to solve contradictory accounts of hereditary matters by assuming the existence of pagan gods and organizing their progeny - Jupiter I and Jupiter II for instance. Perhaps most contentious was Boccaccios identification of Demogorgon as the ultimate progenitor of all pagan divinities description starting on page 5 who was also associated with Satans netherworld conspirators. The Genealogia reputedly had been copied and transmitted before its completion apparently without the consent of Boccaccio. The earliest Latin editions all follow the first of 1472. This is a later edition of Giuseppe Betussis Italian translation of the Genealogia; Betussis first was printed in Venice by Comino da Trino di Monferrato in 1547. Nearly a dozen subsequent editions follow this date well into the seventeenth century. Betussi was a prominent man of letters in Paduas Accademia and was at the avant-garde of those promoting the substitution of Italian for Latin as the language of scholarly literature. To his edition Betussi added a ten-page biography of Boccaccio and alphabetical indices corresponding to page numbers not book or chapter. The Genealogia became a standard reference works for readers who wished to disentangle the complexities of Greco-Roman mythology. The work was enormous in scope covering approximately 950 individuals groups and beasts both named and unnamed in fifteen books and 723 chapters with over a thousand citations from Greek Roman medieval and Trecento authors. Near the end of the sixteenth century the Genealogia while mostly out of the public eye still provided source material for numerous authors including Edmund Spenser and his work on Christianized paganism. This edition rare OCLC lists one other in Toulouse. Giovanni Antonio Bertano paperback books
1590réf. D6205Venice: appresso Fabio e Agostino Zoppini fratelli e Onofrio Farri compagni 1590. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to 210 x154mm. 8 544pp 92 index epithets glossary by Ruscelli. Collation: ast. 4; A-2M 8; 2N 2; 2O-2R 8; 2S 4. Woodcut printers device to title. Oval woodcut portrait of Luigi Groto Cieco dAdria 1541-1585 facing first text page 10 woodcut illustrations numerous woodcut initials most historiated with griffins putti other figures or foliage and decorative chapter head- and tailpieces. Text in italic type; headlines chapter headings and marginalia in Roman. Printed marginalia. Early vellum; title with upper margin stained cancelled inscription and small tear some wear mostly on preliminaries; joints starting. Collection inscription in abbreviated Italian on front pastedown dated 1841 possibly from a Jesuit Society. Early booksellers stamp C. Simms of Manchester. Good large quarto copy of Giovanni Boccaccios Decameron redacted by Luigi Groto 1541-1582 from the edition edited by Girolamo Ruscelli 1500s-1556 and first published two years previously. Groto a minor Venetian writer reworked Boccaccios famous tale; retaining parts of the original parable but also creating his own tangents. Groto for instance created a predicament concerning a young man who finds himself confronted by three different ladies he has been secretly courting. When his deceit is discovered he must answer as to which of them is his true love. The lengthy narration of the amoroso imbroglio is Grotos own literary stamp and he hoped with these revisions he would gain literary fame stating I will give life and light to Boccaccio and he will do likewise for me . I will rescue him from darkness and burial and he in turn will rescue me from obscurity Ironically Grotos retelling of the Decameron remains known for it deformations of the tale rather than its celebration. Each of the ten sections are preceded by an overview written by Ruscelli the well-known editor of Ptolemys Geographia of 1754 and a large woodcut illustration depicting narrative scenes of the Decameron tale. Brunet I 1002; STC Italy I: p.256. appresso Fabio e Agostino Zoppini fratelli e Onofrio Farri compagni hardcover books
1906réf. 329025London: Gibbings & Co. Limited 1906. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition thus. Volume four only. Three quarter red leather with marbled boards and endpapers. Gilt stamped spine. Top edge gilt. Extremities lightly worn else near fine. Gibbings & Co. Limited hardcover books
1904réf. D14606Cambridge: The Riverside Press 1904. Hardcover. Near Fine. 76 pp. With 5 line woodcut decorative red initials woodcut portrait of Dante on title-page red woodcut printers device. Small folio bound in publisher's quarter vellum over brown paper boards title gilt on spine uncut. One of 265 copies. A beautiful printing in English of Boccaccio's eulogy of Dante Alighieri designed by Bruce Rogers at The Riverside Press. A fine copy printed on thick hand made paper. Ex Libris stamp of Lorraine & Dick Laub on front flyleaf plus a letter concerning the sale of the book from the Riverside Press dated February 17 1905. The Riverside Press hardcover books
1952réf. 8592Verona. Editiones Officinae Bodoni. 1952. Bound in half gilt ruled Vellum and paper covered boards. Gilt titles to spine. t.e.g. 4to. 7.5" x 11.5 This Edition has been pinted in Griffo type on the hand-press in 225 numbered copies on hand-made Fabrino paper of which this is number 93. Illustrated with Woodcuts by Bartolommeo Di Giovanni for a lost Quattrocentro Edition which were used to illustrate various later texts and now been reesembled and recut by Fritz Kredel. Very mild usual foxing to fore-edge. Very slight foxing to front and rear pastedowns. A Very Fine crisp copy. Editiones Officinae Bodoni. hardcover books
1960réf. 301620New York Columbia University Press 1960. 1960. First edition thus so stated. 8vo. Translated by Daniel J. Donno. Illustrations by Angela Conner. Dust jacket price clipped. Very good. 149 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. New York, Columbia University Press, 1960. hardcover books
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2018La critica letteraria italiana, a proposito del "Decameron" di Boccaccio, si è polarizzata intorno a due opposte posizioni. Da un lato, quella di Vittore Branca, che ha rinvenuto nell'opera l'«epopea dei mercatanti». Dall'altro, quella di Michelangelo Picone, che ha individuato in essa la riproposizione del modello dantesco, improntato all'esaltazione dei valori cortesi e cavallereschi. In mezzo, l'interpretazione di Giuseppe Petronio, che, superando la «logomachia definitoria», ha cercato di cogliere i veri connotati del «realismo» che domina il Certaldese e il suo capolavoro, strettamente legato al suo tempo, visto nella complessità che lo caratterizza, al di là di ogni schematismo. Il presente volume si propone di proseguire lungo questa linea contrassegnata dall'analisi articolata dei fenomeni letterari, colti nel loro rapporto con i «contesti», nell'unità inscindibile tra «forma» e «contenuto», che sta alla base delle grandi opere, arricchendo il metodo critico specifico della disciplina con l'apporto vivificante di altre (antropologia, sociologia, psicanalisi). Autori: Antonio Catalfamo.
2017brossura Prendendo le mosse della straordinaria fortuna della storia di Griselda, che nel Decameron viene collocata al termine della decima e ultima giornata, si discutono le varie tesi relative alla sua origine, riconoscendo in Boccaccio l'inventore di un preciso intreccio narrativo, che rimane sostanzialmente immutato per circa cinque secoli. La ragione di tale stabilità, come quella dei mutamenti, viene cercata nell'evolversi del concetto di virtù, sotteso alla storia nelle sue varie redazioni.
