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Boccaccio, Giovanni

The Hunt for Diana. Poem, 1832

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Florence, Magheri, 1832. In 8th. Vignette on the title page, specimen in beards some files of different format, slight scattered reddening, binding of the time in half parchment, leather gusset back with title in gold.

Specialist Notes

First printed edition of this poem in third rhyme composed by Boccaccio in the years prior to 1334, in which the author celebrates in a courtly key, as followers of the goddess Diana, the most beautiful women of the Neapolitan society he frequented. Graesse I, 456.

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