Giovanni Boccaccio - Vincenzo Bagli - Boccaccio - De mulieribus claris

The first book about the famous women - Boccaccio - First Italian translation from 1506 Author Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) Title De mulieribus claris. L'opera de misser Giovanni Boccacio de mulieribus claris. Printer Giovanni Tacuino, Venice, March 6, 1506 Description Rare edition of Boccaccio's important work on the famous women in history. First Italian translation by Vincenzo Bagli in a richly illustrated Venetian print run. The illustrations show full-page portraits of famous historical and mythological women, from Eve to Joanna of Jerusalem and Cleopatra, to Pope Joan. The work was authored by Boccaccio around 1360, revised and expanded several times, and first published in 1374. For each figure depicted, the text provides a biography of the respective lady, similar to Plutarch’s “Lives,” whose gender counterpart this work represents. Equipment Single-column Roman type with 28 lines. At the beginning of the poem, a large figurative initial “N” showing Leda with the swan. In total 104 large text woodcuts, some repeated. Page dimensions: 20.5 x 14.5 cm; text area: 15.5 x 10 cm. Collation 150 (of 152) non-numbered leaves. The two leaves A1 (title) and A5 (Voword) are missing. The poem is complete in text and image. Signature scheme: A1-6; B-T8; V4. Binding 19th-century parchment binding. Book block trimmed on three sides with speckled red edges. Very good condition. Covers somewhat stained. Book block and binding firm and stable. Quarto format: 21.5 x 15.5 x 2.5 cm. Condition Very good condition. Clean copy. In the wide margins partially foxed and finger-marked, the text area very clean. The first page more finger-marked. Some leaves slightly cut at the upper margin. Very neat copy. Provenance Old French private collection. References Literature: USTC 814731 Libraries: 24 copies recorded in libraries. Hereby we confirm the originality as well as the pristine provenance of the offered post-incunable. It is free from third-party rights at the time of sale. Information on shipping, customs and export The shipping costs include careful packing of the objects as well as insured shipping to the relevant destination country. For shipping outside the EU with a purchase price of currently 1,000 EURO (as of 2023), customs documents must be applied for. We provide this service for the buyer. The costs incurred for this amount to 60 EURO and are already included in the stated shipping costs. Processing time with the customs authorities takes about 2-3 days.

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