Greenish gold leatherette binding with gilt title on the spine. Gilt three ladies on the front board. All edges gilt. Limited to 550 copies.

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English edition translated by Bartholomew Young (1587); Edited and with an introduction by K.H. Josling; Wonderful illustrations in vivid colour; a limited edition

Giovanni Boccaccio was an Italian author and poet, a friend, student, and correspondent of Petrarch, and important Renaissance humanist, best known for the Decameron. Amorous Fiammetta, or The Elegy of Lady Fiammetta describes Fiammetta’s passion for Panfilo, a Florentine merchant, and has been described as the first psychological novel in Western literature.