CAVICEO (Jacques)

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CAVICEO (Jacques)
A treselegant dialogue entitled Peregrin, betraying honesty and modest love reconciled by pure and sincere virtue. Paris,[Antoine Couteau for] Galliot du Pré, n.d. [at the colophon]: May 25, 1527. In-4 gothic, long grain green morocco, cold and gilded castor and threads in frame, decorated back, inner castor, gilded edges, green half morocco case (C. Smith). Bechtel, C-117. - Brun, p. 150. - Fairfax Murray, French books, n°79. - Moreau, III, n°1158. Original edition of the French translation, by François d'Assy, secretary to King Henry II and Duchess Louise de Valentinois, daughter of Caesar Borgia. It has a title in red and black in the shape of an inverted pyramid, and is decorated with 3 full-page woodcuts featuring the protagonists of the novel, each placed at the beginning of each of the three books. Jacques Caviceo (1443-1511), a poet and writer born in Parma, embraced the ecclesiastical state and professed the beautiful letters in Pardenone. In his novel, certainly inspired by Dante and Boccaccio, he staged the thwarted loves of two young lovers from noble Ferrara families mortally enemy, Peregrine and the beautiful Genevieve. The story of their adventures takes us to the eastern shores of the Mediterranean, from Cyprus to Crete, then from Lisbon to Corsica. Exemplary set, bound in England in the first half of the 19th century by Samuel Charles Smith. Small soiling on the title and last sheet, lower margin of the restored N1 sheet (signature removed), large angular tear without missing restored to the PP1 sheet. Restored hinges and caps (the restoration at the top hinge did not hold).
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