Il pecorone / di ser Giouanni Fiorentino, nel quale si contengono cinquanta nouelle antiche belle d'inuentione et di stile.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Giovanni, Fiorentino, active 14th century, author.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

M.A. Shaaber Fund for the Furness Shakespeare Library.

J. Bertram Lippincott Library Fund.

Julia G.Haney Fund.

Antoni, Giovanni Antonio de', active 1554-1580, printer.

Meda, Valerio, active 1546-1581, printer.

Meda, Girolamo, active 1546-1581, printer.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Merchant of Venice--Sources.

Shakespeare, William.

Voyages and travels--Fiction--Early works to 1800.

Voyages and travels.

Cross-dressing--Fiction--Early works to 1800.

Cross-dressing.

Jews--Fiction--Early works to 1800.

Jews.

Male friendship--Fiction--Early works to 1800.

Male friendship.

Moneylenders--Fiction--Early works to 1800.

Moneylenders.

Novelle.

Italian fiction--To 1400.

Italian fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Hazlitt, William Carew, 1834-1913 (former owner) (Furness copy)

Martini, Giuseppe, 1870-1944 (autograph) (Furness copy)

Physical Description:

227, [1] leaves ; 15 cm (8vo)

Fingerprint:

s-l- onhe t-io mauo (3) 1558 (R)

Place of Publication:

In Milano : Appresso di Giouann' Antonio de gli Antonij, MDLVIII [1558]

In Milano : Imprimeuano i fratelli da Meda, MDLVIII [1558]

Notes:

Colophon on leaf 2F4v reads: In Milano : Imprimeuano i fratelli da Meda, MDLVIII.

Signatures: A-2E⁸ 2F⁴.

Woodcut vignette's (printer's devices of Giovanni Antonio de' Antoni) on title leaf and leaf 2F4v; woodcut initials.

Local Notes:

Furness copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2018 from Nicholas Marlowe Rare Books.

Furness copy acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Furness copy acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the M.A. Shaaber Fund for the Furness Shakespeare Library.

Furness copy acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the J. Bertram Lippincott Library Fund.

Furness copy acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Julia G.Haney Fund.

Furness copy formerly owned by William Carew Hazlitt (1834-1913); formerly owned by Giuseppe Martini (1870-1944) with his signed manuscript note ("Coll. compl. G. Martini") in pencil on front pastedown and manuscript provenance note ("New York, Anderson Galleries, 13-14 Febbr. 1918 Costa [...]") in pencil on front free endpaper..

Furness copy bound ca. 1800 in full straight-grained red morocco; boards ruled in gold; gold-ruled cover edges; gold-tooled turn-ins; gold-ruled spine panels; title, place of printing and imprint date stamped in gold on spine; marbled endpapers; all edges gilt; green silk marker. Housed in a red cloth clamshell case.

Furness copy: small hole in title leaf mended with a blank leaf with minor loss of title.

Cited in:

EDIT 16 CNCE 21103

OCLC:

166017516