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1 - ALAMANNI (Luigi). *Gyrone il cortese*.
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Estimate €300 - €400
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ALAMANNI (Luigi). *Gyrone il cortese*. Paris, Rinaldo Calderio [Regnault Chaudière], 1548. In-4, brown sheepskin, decorated ribbed spine, red edges (original binding). 8 unnumbered folios, 180 numbered folios. ‘A fine edition, printed under the author’s supervision; an advantage not enjoyed by the Venetian edition’, says Brunet I, 126. Text in italics over two columns.  Spectacular title page bearing the bookseller’s mark within an engraved frame and a fine initial on a dotted background at the head of the colophon.  “The work, a rewriting of the prose novel *Gyron le courtois* (printed c. 1503), was commissioned by François I from his Italian poet, serving as a tool for French political propaganda in Italy. The original novel, composed around 1235–1240, the second part of *Meliadus de Leonoys*, belongs to the Arthurian cycle and serves as a prologue to *Lancelot*; it saw five partial editions between 1501 and 1534”, according to the Barbier-Mueller Collection. The printer and bookseller, Claude Chaudière, practised in Paris between 1546 and 1564, taking over, together with his father Regnault, the business of Simon de Colines, whose son-in-law he was.  From the library of Rosa Morando, a patrician of Verona, with an 18th-century armorial bookplate. A fine copy.
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About the sale Xavier de Planhol Library – The Origins of the Novel
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Auction time 09/30/2026 at 2:00 PM
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