Title: La historia de due nobilissimi Amanti Ipolito Et Dianora. Data in luce da Simone Martinelli Cieco
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"> 4to. pp. [12]. Signatures: A6. Recent brown morocco. Blind-ruled panels with gilt corner fleurons and center medallion. Double-column. Includes large title woodcut of two lovers being torn apart by hooded executioners, a scene from a 15th-century tale.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Unrecorded printing depicting Ippolito and Lionora, two Florentine teenage lovers from bitterly feuding families who find themselves in mortal jeopardy, with Ippolito unjustly condemned to death. Lionora courageously secures his freedom at the last minute, and they live happily ever after. Long, and falsely, attributed to Leone Battista Alberti, this story first appeared in print in prose in 1471. The blind poet Simone Martinelli took credit for this verse retelling, one of several popular chapbook romances he successfully tweaked. See M. Sander, Le Livre à figure italien depuis 1467 jusqu’à 1530. New York, 1941, pp. 150-157 and G. Passano, I novellieri italiani in verso. Bologna, 1868, pp. 122-125.
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