| BOCCACCIO, Giovanni
Rime di Messer Giovanni Boccacci Livorno: Tommaso Masi e Compagno, 1802. First edition. Octavo (the pages 20 x 13.2 cm). Contemporary quarter vellum over marbled boards, maroon morocco gilt-tooled title label, silk page marker intact. Printed incisively on creamish watermarked laid paper "co' Caratteri Bodoniani" (the Bodoni types). Collates [1 l.], 1 l. (title), iii-xlvi, 1 l. (fly-title), pp. 1-163 (Rime), 1 l. (fly-title, Annotazioni), pp. 167-216, 1 l. (corrections), [1 l.]. Vellum soiled, title label chipped, shelf label (?) removed, edgewear on covers, paper tear upper rear corner, corners worn, slight foxing on preliminary pages, occasional slight smudges, occasional notations in soft pencil (almost entirely on the commentary and annotation pages and front pastedown), the book block overall very good, strong and bright. The shorter poems of Boccaccio constituting the Rime are replete
with the dolce stil novo and rime petrose of Dante
and the later immense influence of his beloved friend and magister
Petrarch. The collection includes 110 Sonetti, many Ballate,
Madriale, Capitoli, Sestine and Canzoni,
and recapitulations of the Divina Commedia (in terza
rima), the tenth book of the Decameron and L'Ameto.
Brunet I, 994; Graesse I, 448. |