1564 Italian Renaissance Literature Girolamo Parabosco I Diporti Feminism Venice

Girolamo Parabosco was a 16th-century Italian poet known largely for his work ‘I Diporti’. While he did wrote a number of poems, ‘I Diporti’ is a collection of narrative stories that reflect Boccaccio’s ‘Decameron’. It offers an insightful view into the characteristics of Venetian life through the lens of the storytellers – Venetian gentlemen on a retreat – of which, the majority of their stories revolve focus on a pro-woman vs. anti-woman narrative. (Quaintance, p. 59).

Note the publisher. The handwritten publishing information on the title page is likely incorrect. This book, while not published in 1552, is still a mid-16th-century masterpiece. Published in 1564 Venice by Mammello. (USTC).

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PARABOSCO, Girolamo

I diporti di m. Girolamo Parabosco. Di nuovo ristampati, et con somma diligentia revisit

[Venezia: appresso Battista Mammello, 1564.]

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Collation: Complete with all leaves

118

References: USTC 846754; Edit16 35922; Quaintance, Textual Masculinity in Renaissance Venice

USTC lists this exact title and page numbers only from 1564.

Language: Italian

Binding: Leather; tight & secure

Size: ~5.75in X 3.75in (14.5cm x 9.5cm)

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