DELLA GENEOLOGIA DE GLI DEI, DI GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO. DOVE SI TRATTA DELL'ORIGINE, & DISCENDENZA DI TUTTI GLI DEI DE GENTILI (ON THE GENEALOGY OF THE GODS OF THE GENTILES); con la spositione de' sensi allegorici delle Fauole & dichiarationi dell' Historie appartenenti à detta materia

Venice, Italy, 1644. Leather (Vellum). Good. ITALIANO. Contemporary vellum, remains of ties. Internally clean. Pages age tanned, but quite readable. Written in an italic font. Printer's device; head and tail pieces, initials. 9 in. [10], 210 c., 88, 99, [1] p. 4° (26 cm )The 'Rimario' of Udeno Nisieli [pseud. of Benedetto Fioretti] has special t.p. and separate paging. Translated by Giuseppe Betussi. Fifteen parts, followed by "Elucidario Poetico, Per Ordine d'Alphabetto trattato. The last two books of the work, include a defense of poetry. "...a mythography or encyclopedic compilation of the...family relationships of...Ancient Greece and Rome, written in Latin...Boccaccio undertook the project at the request of Hugh IV of Cyprus. The first version was completed in 1360, and [Boccaccio] continually corrected and revised the work until his death in 1374...In his lifetime and for two centuries afterwards it was considered his most important work...It remained the most important mythological manual until the late sixteenth century..." (Wikipedia)


Giovanni Boccaccio was an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist. Boccaccio wrote a number of notable works, including The Decameron.