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1525ref. 4542Venice: Gregorio di Gregorii 1525. Very good. Small 8vo 143 x 95 mm. 44 ff. Collation: A-E8 F4 COMPLETE title-page with light toning fols. A1-2 with unimportant wormholes in blank gutter margin. Very attractive late 19th- or early 20th-century blue embossed boards gray cloth spine. In excellent condition the paper crisp and fresh. ITALIAN POST-INCUNABLE EDITION OF THE CARCEL DE AMOR ONE OF THE MOST ENDURING OF ALL LATE MEDIEVAL ROMANCES. Written in Spanish in the late 15th century the work is a key example of the "star-crossed lovers" romance tradition. It combines allegory with chivalric narrative while its epistolary form intensifies the themes of distance miscommunication and emotional crisis. Widely popular it was quickly translated and circulated across Europe as is attested by this Italian translation published in Venice in 1525. The story continues to be celebrated for its emotional intensity and its refined articulation of courtly love. The romance was first translated into Italian by Lelio de Manfredi of Ferrara in 1514 and represents a moment when literature language and print culture intersected across political and cultural borders. For years the story was reshaped and redistributed in Renaissance Europe and contributed to a shared literary tradition. On the title-page of our edition we find only Manfredi's name and the dedicatee is Isabella d'Esta his former pupil. The translator has added his own closing epistle to the Carcel de Amor which praises Isabella; the author's name Diego de San Pedro is nowhere to be found. The Carcel de amor is told almost entirely through letters speeches and monologues rather than dialogue. It centers on Leriano a young nobleman in love with Laureola daughter of the King of Macedonia. His condition is figured as an allegorical "PRISON OF LOVE" and he communicates with her only through a mediator. A rival Persio sometimes Theseus/Perseus accuses Laureola of having an affair leading to her imprisonment. Leriano rescues her and kills his rival but Laureola ultimately rejects him in a letter. In despair he chooses to starve himself to death but not before delivering a speech in praise of women. CATALOGUER'S NOTE: Italian translations of the Carcel de Amor "Carcer Damore" are uncommon. We have located just three copies of ANY Italian language post-incunable edition at auction in the last century: 1518: sold at Ader Paris 2024 1521: sold at Sotheby's London 1970 1518: sold through Quaritch Catalogue 494 1934. EDIT16 CNCE 44982. See. Gregorio di Gregorii unknown books
1537ref. 4403Venice: Francesco Bindoni & Mapheo Pasini compagni 1537. 8vo 145 x 94 mm. 48 leaves. Italic types. Large title woodcut of the prison of love in flames 19 woodcut text illustrations printed from 13 blocks most showing two scenes; initial spaces with guide letters unrubricated. 19th-century green straight-grained morocco sides with double fillet border enclosing central gold-blocked arms of Gómez de la Cortina his gilt crowned ciphers in the corners gilt edges. Provenance: Joaquin Gómez de La Cortina 1st Marquis de Morante 1808-1868 supralibros & bookplate; with Quaritch their collation note at end; sold in 1996 to Kenneth Rapoport bookplate. Lelio Manfredi’s Italian translation of the Carcel de amor 1st ed. 1492 was among the most popular sentimental romances of its time. Many wept over the thwarted love of the noble Leriano and Laureola heir to the throne of Macedonia. Captive in an allegorical tower of love communicating with his beloved only through mediators the hero eventually renounces her in order to preserve her honor threatened by a rival’s false aspersions. There are duels and battles Leriano stops eating and finally dies after shredding and swallowing her letters. The tragedy touched a nerve and dozens of editions appeared in Spain as well as translations into Italian French English Catalan and in the 17th century German. Few remembered the true author whose name is omitted from most of these editions. One of several Castilian romances that were widely adapted and translated into other western European languages the Carcel de amor was the only one to appear first in print and to be consistently illustrated. It permeated the European reading public. The tale is told through letters and monologues rather than dialogue and much has been written about its hybrid forms and elaborate rhetoric “a reflection of vernacular humanism and a fictional tour de force of rhetorical precepts” Francomano p. 10 and about its literary sources and later influence or lack of it: While many scholars note its influence on the development of later European Renaissance fiction through its use of epistolary exchanges and of a narrative voice L’autore who acts as intermediary as well as its tragic ending and exploration of class differences between the lovers one commentator has called it “a dead-end in the history of literature” A. West: “In general the Prison of Love is a book of vestiges: of ways of believing that no longer obtain of customs that already were dying out of a manner of writing soon to be eclipsed by the realism of the picaresque novel.” The humanist Lelio Manfredi d. 1528 translated the work into Italian at the request of Isabella d’Este to whom the printed editions are dedicated the first appearing in Venice in 1514. Eight more editions of his translation are recorded by USTC all but one Venetian the last in 1546. This edition is the third of four recorded editions by the partners Fr. Bindoni & Maffeo Pasini who specialized in vernacular literature and devotional works. The title woodcut used in the Bindoni and Pasini editions is a close copy of woodcuts from earlier Venetian editions see for example an anonymously published Spanish edition from 1523 Sander 6729 not in USTC whose title is reproduced in the Heredia catalogue vol. 2 no. 2468. Its iconography dates to the earliest Spanish editions as does that of the small primitive text woodcuts which relate to the text and are based on the more elaborate cuts from the Spanish incunable editions cf. Deyermond. Blind copying was the order of the day: note the anachronism of a cheaply printed edition of the 1530s retaining blank initial spaces with guide letters to be filled by nonexistent rubricators or illuminators who by this late date would only have been hired to embellish costly imprints or luxury manuscripts. I locate two US holdings of this edition UCLA and Folger and six holdings of other editions of Manfredi’s translation. USTC 854438; EDIT-16 CNCE 66994; Sander 6732 note; Palau 293388; Brunet V 112. Not in Essling. Cf. Alan Deyermond “The Woodcuts of Diego de San Pedro's Cárcel de Amor 1492-1496” Bulletin hispanique 2002 104-2: 511-528; Emily Francomano The Prison of Love: Romance Translation and the Book in the Sixteenth Century Toronto 2018; Adrian West “On Translating Diego de San Pedro's The Prison of Love” Asymptote Oct. 2012 online. Francesco Bindoni & Mapheo Pasini, compagni unknown
1537ref. 4403Venice: Francesco Bindoni & Mapheo Pasini compagni 1537. 8vo 145 x 94 mm. 48 leaves. Italic types. Large title woodcut of the prison of love in flames 19 woodcut text illustrations printed from 13 blocks most showing two scenes; initial spaces with guide letters unrubricated. 19th-century green straight-grained morocco sides with double fillet border enclosing central gold-blocked arms of Gómez de la Cortina his gilt crowned ciphers in the corners gilt edges. Provenance: Joaquin Gómez de La Cortina 1st Marquis de Morante 1808-1868 supralibros & bookplate; with Quaritch their collation note at end; sold in 1996 to Kenneth Rapoport bookplate. Lelio Manfredi’s Italian translation of the Carcel de amor 1st ed. 1492 was among the most popular sentimental romances of its time. Many wept over the thwarted love of the noble Leriano and Laureola heir to the throne of Macedonia. Captive in an allegorical tower of love communicating with his beloved only through mediators the hero eventually renounces her in order to preserve her honor threatened by a rival’s false aspersions. There are duels and battles Leriano stops eating and finally dies after shredding and swallowing her letters. The tragedy touched a nerve and dozens of editions appeared in Spain as well as translations into Italian French English Catalan and in the 17th century German. Few remembered the true author whose name is omitted from most of these editions. One of several Castilian romances that were widely adapted and translated into other western European languages the Carcel de amor was the only one to appear first in print and to be consistently illustrated. It permeated the European reading public. The tale is told through letters and monologues rather than dialogue and much has been written about its hybrid forms and elaborate rhetoric “a reflection of vernacular humanism and a fictional tour de force of rhetorical precepts” Francomano p. 10 and about its literary sources and later influence or lack of it: While many scholars note its influence on the development of later European Renaissance fiction through its use of epistolary exchanges and of a narrative voice L’autore who acts as intermediary as well as its tragic ending and exploration of class differences between the lovers one commentator has called it “a dead-end in the history of literature” A. West: “In general the Prison of Love is a book of vestiges: of ways of believing that no longer obtain of customs that already were dying out of a manner of writing soon to be eclipsed by the realism of the picaresque novel.” The humanist Lelio Manfredi d. 1528 translated the work into Italian at the request of Isabella d’Este to whom the printed editions are dedicated the first appearing in Venice in 1514. Eight more editions of his translation are recorded by USTC all but one Venetian the last in 1546. This edition is the third of four recorded editions by the partners Fr. Bindoni & Maffeo Pasini who specialized in vernacular literature and devotional works. The title woodcut used in the Bindoni and Pasini editions is a close copy of woodcuts from earlier Venetian editions see for example an anonymously published Spanish edition from 1523 Sander 6729 not in USTC whose title is reproduced in the Heredia catalogue vol. 2 no. 2468. Its iconography dates to the earliest Spanish editions as does that of the small primitive text woodcuts which relate to the text and are based on the more elaborate cuts from the Spanish incunable editions cf. Deyermond. Blind copying was the order of the day: note the anachronism of a cheaply printed edition of the 1530s retaining blank initial spaces with guide letters to be filled by nonexistent rubricators or illuminators who by this late date would only have been hired to embellish costly imprints or luxury manuscripts. I locate two US holdings of this edition UCLA and Folger and six holdings of other editions of Manfredi’s translation. USTC 854438; EDIT-16 CNCE 66994; Sander 6732 note; Palau 293388; Brunet V 112. Not in Essling. Cf. Alan Deyermond “The Woodcuts of Diego de San Pedro's Cárcel de Amor 1492-1496” Bulletin hispanique 2002 104-2: 511-528; Emily Francomano The Prison of Love: Romance Translation and the Book in the Sixteenth Century Toronto 2018; Adrian West “On Translating Diego de San Pedro's The Prison of Love” Asymptote Oct. 2012 online. Francesco Bindoni & Mapheo Pasini, compagni unknown books
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1872ref. 1011831872. Paris 1872. 32pp. 165 items described. Nineteenth century green half morocco marbled boards. The name of the collector added in ink in a contemporary hand. hardcover
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1981ref. MARTINIQ2220115Paris, Herscher, "les Archives de la Société de Géographie", 1981, 23 x 28,5, 134 pages sous reliure éditeur toilée et jaquette illustrée. Iconographie en noir & blanc.
ref. 60998Lescuyer 1970 livre étude 21*17 sp pages
1948ref. RO80110241CALMANN-LEVY. 6 oct. 1948. In-12. Relié. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur acceptable. 356 pages. Reliure de bibliothèque : code sur la coiffe en-tête, tampons sur la page de titre et dans quelques marges.. . . . Classification Dewey : 840-Littératures des langues romanes. Littérature française
1956ref. 256539Arthème fayard 1956 collection le livre de demain #0. in12. 1956. Cartonné.
1966ref. 441961966 Paris. La table ronde. 1966. 1 volume in-8 à grandes marges, non coupé, non rogné. 355 pp. ; (1) p. bl. ; (2) ff.
1938ref. 27329Paris Les Oeuvres Françaises 1938 In-12 carré 230 pp
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1981ref. RO40131096Garnier Frères. 1981. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 213 pages.. . . . Classification Dewey : 843.081-Le roman historique
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1981ref. RO30316582Garnier Frères. 1981. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 213 pages.. . . . Classification Dewey : 843.081-Le roman historique
1969ref. RO40097349Grolier Limitée. 1969. In-8. Relié. Bon état, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 204 pages. Illustré de nombreux dessins en noir et blanc et monochrome, et de photos en noir et blanc.. . . . Classification Dewey : 930-Histoire générale du monde ancien jusqu'à 499 apr. J.-C.
ref. 4749PARIS, Imp. Alcan-Lévy - 1900 - Exposition Universelle 1900, Les colonies françaises - Broché - 1 & 4 plats illustrés en couleurs - nombreuses illustrations NB, certaines PP - 6 dernières pages rognées n'altérant pas le texte - 149 pages - bon Ex.
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