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The 1527 giuntina fixed Boccaccio's text until Manelli's edition of 1761, becoming a symbol of the freedom of the Florentine Republic, since, as Ugo Foscolo wrote, almost everyone who worked on it (Bernardo Segni, Pier Vettori, Baccio and Bartolomeo Cavalcanti, Francesco Guidetti) died fighting the Medici.
Paolo Rolli was responsible for this reprint in which the “ventisettana” is copied word for word, line by line.
This is the very rare London edition of Thomas Edlin in 1725 which is a reissue of the 1527 edition -
Illustrated with a superb allegorical engraving on the frontispiece and a portrait of Boccaccio -
Giovanni Boccaccio - Il Decameron Di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio 1527 - 1725
Good condition of the binding, work in its period full brown leather, rubbing from use, small scuff marks, rubbed corners, cracked joints, loose crowns, spine with 6 decorated raised bands, red edges, gilt title and volume number on morocco pieces -
Very good condition inside, very beautiful clear paper with very large margins, beautiful initials, tailpieces, superb allegorical engraving on the frontispiece and a portrait of Boccaccio, marbled flyleaves, ex libris -
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