A treatise excellent and compe[n]dious, shewing and declaring, in maner of tragedye, the falles of sondry most notable princes and princesses vvith other nobles, through ye mutabilitie and change of vnstedfast fortune : together with their most detestable [and] wicked vices. First compyled in Latin by the excellent clerke Bocatius, an Italian borne. And sence that tyme translated into our English and vulgare tong, by Dan Iohn Lidgate monke of Burye.

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.

Contributor:

Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?

Series:

Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 176:2.

Standardized Title:

De casibus virorum illustrium. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kings and rulers--Poetry--Early works to 1800.

Kings and rulers.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

9 unnumbered leaves, CCxxiiii, that is, 225 leaves : illustrations (woodcuts)

35 mm

monochrome

service copy

positive

Edition:

And nowe newly imprynted, corrected, and augmented out of diuerse and sundry olde writen copies in parchment.

Other Title:

De casibus illustrium virorum.

Treatise excellent and compendious, shewing and declaring, in maner of tragedye, the falles of sondry most notable princes and princesses with other nobles, through ye mutabilitie and change of unstedfast fortune.

Place of Publication:

[London] : In ædibus Richardi Tottelli. Cum priuilegio, [1554 (10 Sept.)]

Notes:

A verse translation of: Boccaccio, Giovanni. De casibus illustrium virorum.

Colophon reads: Imprinted at London in Fletestrete within Temple barre at the sygne of the hande and starre, by Richard Tottel, the. x. day of September in the yeare of oure Lorde. 1554.

"The daunce of Machabree", quire 2[par.] at end.

The last leaf is misnumbered CCxxiiii.

Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1943. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1475-1640; 176:2). s1943 miun a

Cited in:

STC (2nd ed) 3177.

OCLC:

55164824