>Dear list members,
> I was wondering if any of you could help me with the following
>query. I'm doing some background research on a rather obscure text by
>Boccaccio, which in English is entitled: 'The tragedies gathered by Ihon
>Bochas of all such princes as fell from theyr estates'. The Short Title
>Catalogue has tentatively dated the translation that I am working with as
>1555, though there is some speculation over this. Many of the extant
>copies of this work are without frontispiece, and the English version
>appears every so often in book auction catalogues. Has anyone any
>information regarding the original Italian edition, or any suggestions for
>further enquiries??
Hi Domenico,
Paul's suggestion -- re Boccaccio, not necessarily the bisexual princes :-) --
fits in with the bibliographical information provided by Harvard's catalogue:
AUTHOR: Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.
TITLE: The tragedies, gathered by Ihon Bochas, of all such princes as
fell from theyr estates throughe the mutability of fortune ...
Translated into Englysh by Iohn Lidgate.
PUB. INFO: [At London, Imprinted ... by Iohn Wayland] [1554?]
DESCRIPTION: 9 p.l., clxiii, xxxvii (i.e. xxxix) numb. l. 1 illus. 33 cm.
NOTES: Based on Laurent de Premierfait's French prose version of
Boccaccio's De casibus virorum illustrium.
University microfilms no. 10757 (case 52, car
Short-title catalogue no. 1246 [i.e. 3178 var.]
AUTHORS: *A1 Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375.
*A2 Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451? tr.
*A3 Laurent de Premierfait, d. 1418.
OTHER TITLES: Fall of prynces.
Memorial of suche princes.
LOCATION: Houghton: f STC 3178 (B)
This copy does not contain the second title-page.
With this is bound (as issued) Roger Bieston's The bayte &
snare of fortune [1554?]
Library has: papercopy
Houghton: f STC 3178 (A)
Library has: papercopy
The expert on Laurent de Premierfait's translations of Boccaccio is Giuseppe Di
Stefano at McGill (home of fellow list members Maria Predelli and Lucienne Kroha,
inter alia), if you wish to follow the French connection more closely. I'm not up
on Lydgate, though, so I don't know who to suggest on that count; can anyone else
give a hand?
George
George Ferzoco tel ++ 44 (0)116 252 2654
Director of Studies for Italian fax ++ 44 (0)116 252 3633
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School of Modern Languages
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