Carcer d'amore / tradotto dal magnifico Messer Lelio de Manfredi, Ferrarese, de idioma spagnolo in lingua materna, historiato, & nuouamente con diligentia corretto.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

San Pedro, Diego de, active 1500, author.

Contributor:

Manfredi, Lelio, translator.

Bindoni, Francesco, active 1523-1553, printer.

Pasini, Maffeo, active 1524-1551, printer.

Standardized Title:

Cárcel de amor. Italian

Language:

Italian

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Love--Early works to 1800.

Love.

Genre:

Early works.

Physical Description:

48 leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 16 cm (8vo)

Place of Publication:

Stampato in Vinegia : Per Francesco Bindoni & Mapheo Pasini compagni, MDXXXVII del mese di Luio [1537 July]

Summary:

Epistolary romance by Diego de San Pedro, written some time after 1465, and first printed in 1492, recounting the story of courtly love of Leriano and Laureola, which ends with Leriano's suicide. A known source of the play La celestina by Fernando de Rojas.

Notes:

Italian translation by Lelio Manfred of: Carcel de amor.

Imprint from colophon.

Signatures: A-F⁸.

Woodcuts: large title vignette, representing a nobleman climbing a steep staircase to a prison tower constructed on four columns, with three putti and a phoenix perched above on the roof; text illustrated throughout with 19 additional smaller woodcuts, most of which are double scenes.

Printed in italic type; spaces left for capitals, with guide letters.

Local Notes:

PQ6431.S4 C319 1537: Purchased in 2025 from Zinos Books. Parchment over boards. Bookseller's correspondence laid in.

Cited in:

Palau y Dulcet, A. Manual del librero hispano-americano (2. ed.), 293389

Sander, M. Livre à figures italien depuis 1467 jusqu'à 1530, 6732 (note)

OCLC:

43213161