GIRALDI CINZIO (Giambattista). - Lot 73

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GIRALDI CINZIO (Giambattista). - Lot 73
GIRALDI CINZIO (Giambattista). First [- second] volume of the hundred excellent news. Containing several beautiful examples & notable stories, partly tragic, partly pleasant & agreeable, which tend to blaspheme the vices, & form the morals of each one. Paris, Pour Abel L'Angelier, 1583-1584. 2 volumes in-8, eggplant morocco, Du Seuil style decoration, spine decorated with a small repeated gilt fleuron, triple filet inside, gilt edges (Gruel). Balsamo & Simonin, n°85 and 110. First edition of Gabriel Chappuys' translation of the Hecatommithi by Giraldi Cynthien (1504-1573), playwright and philosopher from Ferrara. The work was one of Shakespeare's main sources for the writing of Othello. A perfectly established copy by Gruel. Some minor rubbing to the binding, gilding a little chipped in places on the head edge.
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