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Thursday 09 March 2023 e Friday 10 March 2023, 03:00 PM • Rome

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Boccaccio, Giovanni

Diana's hunt. Poem, 1832

Estimate

€ 50 - 100

Sold

€ 65

The price includes buyer's premium

Information

Florence, Magheri, 1832. In 8th. Vignette on the title page, copy in beards, some booklets of different formats, scattered light reddenings, half parchment binding of the time, leather insert on the spine with gilt title.

Specialist Notes

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