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Record Nr.

UNISA996383060403316

Autore

Boccaccio Giovanni <1313-1375.>

Titolo

A treatise excellent and compe[n]dious, shewing and declaring, in maner of tragedye, the falles of sondry most notable princes and princesses vvith other nobles, through ye mutabilitie and change of vnstedfast fortune [[electronic resource] ] : together with their most detestable [and] wicked vices. First compyled in Latin by the excellent clerke Bocatius, an Italian borne. And sence that tyme translated into our English and vulgare tong, by Dan Iohn Lidgate monke of Burye

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[London], : In ædibus Richardi Tottelli. Cum priuilegio, [[1554 (10 Sept.)]

Edizione

[And nowe newly imprynted, corrected, and augmented out of diuerse and sundry olde writen copies in parchment.]

Descrizione fisica

[9], CCxxiiii [i.e. 225] leaves : ill. (woodcuts)

Altri autori (Persone)

LydgateJohn <1370?-1451?>

Soggetti

Kings and rulers

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

A verse translation of: Boccaccio, Giovanni.  De casibus illustrium virorum.

Colophon reads: Imprinted at London in Fletestrete within Temple barre at the sygne of the hande and starre, by Richard Tottel, the. x. day of September in the yeare of oure Lorde. 1554.

"The daunce of Machabree", quire 2[par.] at end.

The last leaf is misnumbered CCxxiiii.

Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0113