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GIRALDI CINZIO, Giambattista - Premier (Second) volume des cent excellentes nouvelles de M. Jean Baptiste Giraldy Cynthien.
Contenant plusieurs beaux exemples & notables histoires, partie tragique, partie plaisantes & agrables, qui tendent à blasmer les vices, & former les mœurs d'un chacun. Translated from Italian into French by Gabriel Chappuys Tourangeau. Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1583-1584. 2 vols. pet. in-8, (12) ff, 502 ff ; (12) ff, 304 ff, yellowed paper; a few light stains, red half-chag. with ornate spine.
BALSAMO 181, nos. 85 and 86. First edition of the first French translation dedicated to Claude de Clermont, duchesse de Retz and to the Duc d'Epernon (vol. II). The Hecatommithi first appeared in Italian in 1565. The tales of Giraldi Cinzio (1503-1573), as famous as those of Boccaccio, inspired Shakespeare and the Elizabethan theatre, among others. Ex-libris ms. Jules Bobin 1868.
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