Il Decameron di Messer Giovanni Bocacci cittadin Fiorentino, / di nuovo ristampato, e riscontrato in Firenze con testi antichi, & alla sua vera lettione ridotto. Dal Cavalier Lionardo Salviati deputato dal sereniss. Gran Duca di Toscana, con permissione de' superiori. ... ; Et in questa ultima impressione adornato di bellissime figure appropriate a chaischeduna novella.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.

Contributor:

• Salviati, Lionardo, 1540-1589.
• Vecchi, Alessandro de', fl.1602-1630., Printer.
• Turner, Evan H., Donor.
• Turner, Albert Morton., Former owner.
• Frank R. Brown (Firm), Former owner.
• Foreign Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Standardized Title:

• Decamerone

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

• Plague--Europe--History--Fiction.
• Italian literature.

Physical Description:

[28], 224, 221-603 p. : ill., port. ; 20 cm. (8vo)

Place of Publication:

In Venetia, : Appresso Alessandro Vecchi., M. DC. XIIII. [1614]

Notes:

• Text the same as 1582 ed.
• Printer's device on title page; date of imprint follows "In Venetia" on t.p.
• Page 601 misnumbered 501.
• Edited by Lionardo Salviati.

Local Notes:

• Athenaeum copy: Exhibited: "Three generations of book collectors," at the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, 2012.
• Athenaeum copy: Gift of: Evan H. Turner (2006), from the collection of Professor Albert Morton Turner (1890-1976).
• Athenaeum copy wanting leaves O1-O8 (p. 209-224 of 2nd pagination sequence); correspondence and invoice from bookseller Frank R. Brown laid in.

OCLC:

174561126