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[Novel] Boccaccio, Corbaccio, 1569

Rare Parisian Edition

Boccaccio, Giovanni. Il Corbaccio. In Parigi : per Federigo Morello, 1569.

8°, limp vellum, pp. [16], 122, [6], 127-173, [1], The name of the author is taken from the incipit at f. A1r.
Contains the notes taken by Jacopo Corbinelli from the 1384 apograph manuscript by Francesco D'Amaretto Mannelli, on which Corbinelli himself conducted the edition, cfr its dedication to Vincenzo Magalotti.



Corbaccio is the most famous of the works composed by Giovanni Boccaccio after the publication of his masterpiece, the Decameron, probably dating back to 1365, after Boccaccio chose to live in retreat in Certaldo. Corbaccio is written in vulgar prose, and the most evident innovation of the work emerges in the presentation of love and the female figure



Corbaccio, disappointed by the rejection of a widow he was in love with, falls asleep and finds himself among the souls of those who in life have succumbed to the illusion of love, which are presented in the form of fairs. Corbaccio's "guide", not very Virgilian, is the soul of the widow's husband who, in exchange for the promise of the celebration of masses in his honor and the transcription of what he will reveal to him, tells Corbaccio all the defects, moral and physical, of the woman.