1530 La Calandra by Bernardo Dovizi Italian Erotica Boccaccio Plautus Venice

1530 La Calandra by Bernardo Dovizi Italian Erotica Boccaccio Plautus Venice

Bernardo Dovizi was a 15^th-century Italian author best known for his prose “La Calandra” This comedy, which was based on Plautus’s “Menaechmi” and Boccaccio’s “Decameron”, includes themes of romance and immoral erotica and became quite popular throughout 16^th-century Italy.

This 1530 printing of “Calandra” was published in Venice by Zoppino.

Item number: #22747

Price: $950

DOVIZI, Bernardo

Calandra comedia di Bernardo Divitio da Bibiena intitolata la Calandra nuovamente corretta et con ogni diligenza stampata

Venice: per Nicolo d’Aristotile detto Zoppino, 1530.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • 47 leaves, [2]
• Provenance: Bookplate
  • Sebastiani Evans
    • Sebastian Evans (1830–1909) was an English journalist and political activist, known also as a man of letters and an artist. He helped to form the National Union of Conservative Associations.
  • Nathan H. Polmer
• Language: Italian
• Binding: Vellum; tight and secure
• Size: ~6.25in X 4.25in (16cm x 10.5cm)
• quite rare

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