107. "Amorosa visione" by Giovanni Boccacio, Latin, princeps edition, London, 1521, collector's item

The bibliophile volume, printed in Italian, is fully preserved and has a total of 109 printed pages. The book binding is made of cardboard covers wrapped in brown leather, adorned with a simple gilded border and a second embossed border. On the spine it has the title printed: "Amorosa visione". The book binding has been restored. The book does not contain notes of historical documentary interest. The copy is rare, is in good condition and has a special cultural heritage value. "Amorosa visione" is part of the early writings of Giovanni Boccacio, penned in Florence between 1341 and 1343. The vision of love, this famous literary creation, is in fact an allegorical pastoral poetry, composed of 50 cantos, about glory, wealth, love and luck, but above all about the triumph of love. "Amorosa visione" was first printed in 1521. This post-incunable, this first edition, is extremely rare and famous, presenting a simple and clear title page : "AMOROSA VISIONE di messer Giov. Bocc. nuovamen Terittonata, nella quale si cotegono cinq Triumph di sapietia, di Gloria, di Ricchezza, di Amore, e di Fortuna. APOLOGIA di H. Claricio Immol. Contro Dtrattori della Poesia del Bocc. Osservatiuoni di volgar Gramatica del Bocc." Last 21 pages are accompanied by the polemic Apologia of Girolamo Claricio (1470- 1521), in defense of Boccaccio’s poetry. Edited by Zanotti Castiglione (Castillionus Silvaticus) from Milan, funded by Andrea Calvo, was published in London in February 1521 and was followed during the sixteenth century by three other editions. The humanist Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375) is considered one of the greatest Italian poets. He underwent theological and philological studies, opting like Petrarch for the humanistic literary culture, operating in Florence, Ravenna and Naples; for a while at the court of King Robert d'Anjou, where he meets Maria de Conti d'Anjou, the illegitimate daughter of the king with whom he has love relations and whose face he immortalized in many of his poetic creations, such as the one attached. Humanism was the progressive philosophy of life that resounds from all his writings, written in Latin and Italian, represented by a large number of stories and verses, poetry being his second faith.

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