I casi de gli huomini illustri / opera di M. Giouan Boccaccio partita in noue libri ne quali si trattano molti accidenti di diuersi prencipi ; in cominciando dalla creatione dil mondo fino al tempo suo, con le historie, & casi occrsi nelle uite di quelli ; insieme coi discorsi, ragioni & consigli descritti dall'auttore, secondo l'occorrenza delle materie, tradotti, & ampliati per M. Giuseppe Betussi da Bassano con la tauola di tutte le sentenze, nomi & cose notabili che nell'opra si contengono.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.

Contributor:

Betussi, Giuseppe, active 16th century.

Nicolini da Sabbio, Pietro, printer.

Nicolini da Sabbio, Giovanni Maria, printer.

Arrivabene, Andrea, active 1534-1570, printer.

Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Italian Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

De casibus virorum illustrium. Italian

Language:

Italian

Latin

Subjects (All):

Women--Biography.

Women.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Crawford, James Pyle Wickersham, 1882-1939 (bookplate) (honoree) (former owner)

Crawford, May Wickersham (donor)

Physical Description:

264 leaves, 12 unnumbered leaves ; 16 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Casi de gli hvomini illvstri

Fingerprint:

lici a-es rati daIa (3) 1551 (R)

Place of Publication:

In Vinegia : Al segno del Pozzo, MDLI [1551]

Notes:

Translation of: De casibus virorum illustrium.

Colophon reads: In Vinegia per Pietro & Giouan Maria fratelli de i Nicolini da Sabbio, nell' anno del Signore M D L I à tredici d'Agosto.

Device of Andrea Arrivabene (Vacarro 262) on title page.

Woodcut initials.

Printed marginalia.

Signatures: A-2K⁸ 2L⁴ *⁸.

Signature errors: leaf F2 signed as E2, M4 signed as L4, and N3 signed M3.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy bound in full vellum; author's name and title stamped in gold on spine.

Culture Class Collection copy has the bookplate of J.P. Wickersham Crawford on front pastedown.

Culture Class Collection copy presented to the University of Pennsylvania by May Wickersham Crawford as a memorial to her husband J.P. Wickersham Crawford.

Culture Class Collection copy has early ms. shelfmark "C.III. 107" on front pastedown.

Culture Class Collection copy has illegible ms. inscription on front free end paper.

Culture Class Collection copy has ms. notes on margins of leaves 235 and 236.

Cited in:

Adams B2138

EDIT 16 CNCE 6322

Vacaro, E. Tipografi ed editori del secolo XVI, 262

OCLC:

228732742