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Auction 133:

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Giovanni Fiorentino,S.


 
Il Pecorone. Nel quale si contengono cinquanta novelle antiche belle d'invenzione e di stile. 2 Bde. London, R. Bancker (d.i. Livorno) 1793. Mit gest. Porträt-Frontisp. v. Rosapina nach Lapi. XXX S., 1 Bl., 304 S.; 307 S. Prgtbde. d. Zt. mit Rsch. (Etw. gebräunt, leicht fl.).  
 
Gamba 527. - Der um 1380 entstandene Novellenzyklus lieferte u.a. Shakespeare Motive für seinen "Merchant of Venice". - Auf bläulichem Papier. - A collection of 50 Florentine novellas attributed to fourteenth-century author Giovanni Fiorentino; written between 1378 and 1385, and first printed in Milan in 1558. The work appears to have served as a source for Shakespeare's plays The Merry Wives of Windsor and The Merchant of Venice - with one tale featuring an Italian merchant and a Jewish moneylender. - Tls. etw. stockfl.
 
Giovanni Fiorentino,S. | Bild Nr.1

Giovanni Fiorentino,S. | Bild Nr.1

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