The Decameron, Modell of newest Wit, Mirth, Eloquence and Conversation ~ Boccaccio ~ 1980 Easton Press ~ Red Leather

The Decameron

The Modell of Wit, Mirth, Eloquence and Conversation

Framed in Ten Days, of an Hundred Curious Pieces, by Seven Honourable Ladies, and three Nobel Gentlemen; Preserved to Posterity by the Renowned

JOHN BOCCACCIO

The First Refiner of Italian Prose

Translated in English anno 1620, with an Introduction by Edward Hutton and Wood-cuts in the Renaissance manner by

FRITZ KREDEL

The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written

Collector's Edition
Bound in Genuine Leather

1980, The Easton Press
Norwalk, Connecticut

Sewn binding. Red leather (the actual leather is a bit darker in tone than shows on newest the images) over boards with gilt decoration on front and back and design and lettering on spine. Integral ribbon marker sewn in. Five spine hubs. All edges of leaves gilt. Moiré endpapers. 10", 536 pages, publisher's preface, table of contents, general introduction

Near Fine condition. A solid, clean copy. The ribbon maker looks to be unmoved, therefore the book unread.

From the Publisher's Preface

One of the most famous works in all literature, "The Decameron" is the work of an Italian author and poet who died more than six hundred ago. This sequence of one hundred entertaining tales is among the earliest works of Italian prose.

Edward Hutton, the biographer of Boccaccio and author of several volumes about Italy - as well as of the Introduction to this volume - calls "The Decameron" "an absolute work of art, as detached as a play by Shakespeare or a portrait by Velazquez ... "The Decameron" is a world in itself, and its effect upon on us who read it is the effect of life which includes, for its own good, things moral and immoral. The book has the variety of the world and is full of an infinity of people who represent for us the fourteenth century in Italy in all its fullness."

BEP