Boccaccio (Giovanni) Genealogiae Deorum, with additions

Boccaccio (Giovanni) Genealogiae Deorum, with additions by Dominicus Silvester and Raphael Zovenzonius, first edition, collation: [1-1210 1312 14-1810 196 20-2210 23-258 26-2910 3012], 258 blank, 291 ff. (of 296, lacking ff.63 and 68, final 2 index ff. (the latter includes colophon verso) and final blank), 41 lines, Roman type, initial spaces with guide-letters, occasional early ink marginalia, some spotting and staining, the latter mostly marginal, 20th century vellum over boards, lightly marked, a few small stains, folio (324 x 214mm.), Venice, Vindelinus de Spira, 1472.

⁂ A wide-margined copy of the first edition of this encyclopedia of classical mythology and classical and later authors, which is the first work to quote passages from Homer. It contains some 723 entries and includes a life of Dante and material on Boccaccio's contemporary Petrarch, along with the author's own important defence of poetry.

Provenance: 'A.M. Woodward, May, 1936' (pencil inscription to front free endpaper).

Literature: BMC V, 162; Goff B-749; HC 3315*; GW 4475; Bod-Inc B-369; BSB-Ink B-583; ISTC ib00749000