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Giulio Cesare CROCE

Bertoldo con Bertoldino et Cacasenno

Lelio dalla Volpe, In Bologna 1736, In-4 (21,5x29,5cm), (16) 346pp. (2) 128pp., relié.

First edition. The original dates from 1606. The illustration includes a frontispiece, a title vignette and 20 figures as well as 16 vignettes placed at the end of certain songs, all by Giuseppe Maria Crespi. Neat impression.
Binding in full vellum of the nineteenth ca1880. Back to nerves decorated with grotesque boxes. 2 pieces of black sheepskin title. Framing net on angular boards and finials. Golden streaks. Slight slit in the upper joint at the top on 0.5cm. Stains and dirt. Fresh whole, some leaves frayed in low margin. Beautiful copy.
Giulio Cesare Croce (1550-1609), born in the province of Bologna, comes from a poor family, he studied medicine, then embarked on a career in literature, then died poor. Bertoldino and Cacasenno are two emblematic and extremely popular characters from Italy, they have become types, Bertoldino is a cunning and rascal character, who opposes the simplicity and the rusticity of Cacasenno. The two accomplices have thus (like Don Quixote) become more famous than the book from which they come. An opera was made of it at the end of the 18th century with a libretto by Goldoni.

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