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Libro di M. Giovanni Boccaccio, Delle donne illustri / tradotto di Latino in volgare per M. Giuseppe Betussi, con una giunta fatta dal medesimo, d'altre donne famose ; e un'altra nuoua giunta fatta per M. Francesco Serdonati, d'altre donne illustri, antiche e moderne.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection IC B6306 Ei545b2 1596
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.
- Standardized Title:
- De mulieribus claris. Italian
- Language:
- Italian
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Biography--Early works to 1800.
- Women.
- Women--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Macauley, Francis Campbell (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 32 unnumbered pages,1-478 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 479-676 pages, 54 unnumbered pages : illustrations (portraits) ; 16 cm (8vo)
- Other Title:
- Delle donne illustri
- Fingerprint:
- zai- 856. atue dora (3) 1596 (R)
- Place of Publication:
- In Fiorenza : Per Filippo Giunti, MDXCVI [1596]
- Notes:
- "Expanded edition of the author's "De Claris Mulieribus" with additional biographies by the translator (from the Latin) G. Betussi and a large second part with additions by Francesco Serdonati. Cf. Bookseller's catalog.
- Signatures: [dagger]-2[dagger]⁸ A-2T⁸ 2V-2X⁴ 2Y-2Z⁸ 3A⁶.
- Printer's device (Zappella 652) on title page; variant form on last leaf.
- Woodcut initials.
- Leaf 2G8 blank.
- Includes indexes.
- Printed marginalia.
- "Registro" and colophon on p. [478] (dated 1595) and final leaf (dated 1596).
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy is from the Macauley Library.
- Culture Class Collection copy has partially effaced ms. inscription which begins: "Questo libro ..."
- Culture Class Collection copy has stamp with initials "S.B." on title page.
- Cited in:
- Adams B2145
- BM STC Italian, 1465-1600, p. 109
- EDIT 16 CNCE 6403
- Zappella, G. Marche dei tipografi del Cinquecento, 652
- OCLC:
- 10520364
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