Beschreibung:

circa 22,2 x 16,8 cm., VII, 27 ff. with a woodcut vignette of the Crusca on the title and figural initials. Modern Half-vellum Gamba 683 ("rara edizione"); Gamba, Novelle 67; Papanti II, 11; Passano 303. Important edition of this famous novel of the fat carpenter who becomes the victim of a practical joke of the architect Brunelleschi. The incident is supposed to have really happened in 1409, a first publication appeared in the year 1516. Here the Florentine scholar Domenico Manni (1690-1788) collects all available material from the archives and tries to reconstruct the story of the historic carpenter Manetto.

Bemerkung:

- Only the title-page browned and soiled, otherwise rather clean and fine.