Boccaccio, Giovanni. Ameto del Boccacio. (Florence: heirs of ꦑFilippo Giunta, 20 February 1521)

[Bound with:] Fiammetta del Boccaccio. (Florence: Filippo Giunta, April 1517)

[And:] Laberinto d'amore... con una epistola a Messer Pino de Rossi confortatoria. (Florence): [Filippo Giunta], (1516)

A richly annotated set of Bo🀅ccaccio's shorter works.

3 works in one volume, 8vo (162 x 95 mm). Italic type, 29-30 lines plus headline. Ameto: a-n⁸: 104 leaves (n7 blank). Last leaf with woodcut device (otherwise blank); Fiammetta: a-o⁸: 112 leaves. Last leaf with woodcut device (otherwise blank); Laberinto: A-I⁸: 72 leaves. Numerous early annotations in different hanဣds, with the date 21 October 1524 on fol.3 of Fiammetta, ♛and some marginal drawings. (Occasional soiling.)

binding: Seventeenth-century Italian paper-covered boards (170 x 103 mm), manuscript lettering on spine, manuscript lettering on edges, some deckle edges, in modern marbled 🥃paper drop-bac🧸ked box. (Binding worn and faded, spine torn.)

acquisition: Purchased from Sokol Books, London, 1998. references: Edit16 6256, 6244 & 6241; Pettas, Giunta 173 [a𒁃s 152🧜1/1522], 107 & 96; Renouard XLIV/53, XLI/94 & XL/87