Bongi II, 52. ICCU/Edit16 no. 6343. – Eine der zahlreichen Ausgaben von Boccaccios dritter Veröffentlichung. – „The third important work written by Boccaccio during his stay at Florence, or soon after his return to Naples, is called L amoroso, Fiammetta; and although written in prose, it contains more real poetry than the elaborate production just referred to. It purports to be Fiammetta s com plaint after her lover, following the call of filial duty, had deserted her. Bitterly she deplores her fate, and upbraids her lover with coldness and want of devotion. Jealous fears add to her torture, not altogether unfounded, if we believe the commentators assertion that the heroine of Ameto is in reality the beautiful Lucia, a Florentine lady loved by Boccaccio. Sadly Fiammetta recalls the moments of former bliss, the first meeting, the stolen embrace. Her narrative is indeed our chief source of information for the incidents of this strange love-story. It has been thought unlikely, and indeed impossible, that Boccaccio should thus have become the mouthpiece of a real lady s real passion for himself ; but there seems nothing incongruous in the supposition that after a happy reunion the poet should have heard with satisfaction, and surrounded with the halo of ideal art, the story of his lady s sufferings. Moreover, the language is too full of individual intensity to make the conjecture of an entirely fictitious love affair intrinsically probable. L amorosa Fiammetta is a monody of passion sustained even to the verge of dulness, but strikingly real, and therefore artistically valuable“ (Encyclopædia Britannica, 1862, III, 844). – Einband etwas berieben, Rücken am Fuss mit kl. Fehlstelle, Gelenke etwas spröde, die ersten Bl. etwas wasserfleckig, stellenweise leicht gebräunt, gutes dekorativ gebundenes Exemplar.

Schlagwörter: Erotica, Italian literature, Italian poetry, Italie, Italien, Literatur, Renaissance

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