Giulio Cesare CROCE
Bertoldino et Cacasenno
Pietro Pinolato|Venezia [Venice] • (Venise) [Venice] 1782|18.50 x 10.50 cm|relié
First edition. The original dates from 1606.
Fine printing on quality paper. Illustrated with 20 woodcuts in a popular and rustic style, a medallion portrait and a frontispiece (copperplate).
Half navy glazed calf binding late 19th century, spine with raised bands decorated with 5 fleurons.
The copy, of perfect whiteness, appears to have been washed. Giulio Cesare Croce (1550-1609), born in the province of Bologna, came from a poor family, he studied medicine then launched into a literary career, then died poor. Bertoldino and Cacasenno are two emblematic and extremely popular characters of Italy, they have become types, Bertoldino is a cunning and crafty character, who contrasts with the simplicity and rusticity of Cacasenno. The two companions 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.
Fine printing on quality paper. Illustrated with 20 woodcuts in a popular and rustic style, a medallion portrait and a frontispiece (copperplate).
Half navy glazed calf binding late 19th century, spine with raised bands decorated with 5 fleurons.
The copy, of perfect whiteness, appears to have been washed. Giulio Cesare Croce (1550-1609), born in the province of Bologna, came from a poor family, he studied medicine then launched into a literary career, then died poor. Bertoldino and Cacasenno are two emblematic and extremely popular characters of Italy, they have become types, Bertoldino is a cunning and crafty character, who contrasts with the simplicity and rusticity of Cacasenno. The two companions 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.
€400