Doni, (Anton Francesco)

 La Zucca

3 parts in 1 volume

Venice, Francesco Marcolini, 1551

First Edition


16 pages, 63 pages; 4 sheets, 64 pages; 4 sheets, 61 pages, 1 sheet.


With woodcut title border, 3 repeated woodcut printer's marks, 3 large emblematic medallions, full-page and two-thirds-page portrait woodcut, 3 full-page repeated and 18 half-page text woodcuts.


Size 4 1/4 by 6 1/3" ( 16x11cm. )

Original limp vellum binding, worn. Lacks front endpaper.
Otherwise good condition


First edition of the curious collection La Zucca (The Pumpkin), which Doni says he was inspired by Domenichi's Facetie: "A mishmash of all sorts of things, sentences, Proverbs, bon mots, histories, fables, moral portrayals, jokes, allegories and satires, which are strangely mixed together"

Contains
I cicalamenti,
Le baie and Le chiachiere della Zucca
 each with its own subtitle

Title with a small tear in the edge, sometimes more, sometimes less finger-stained, the end page is wide in the lower margin, initially with a narrow watermark. The portrait woodcut with a small pen drawing in the lower margin. Interior mirror with mounted label "Crivellari Angelo, libraio Vicenza".

Text in Italian

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Doni, (Anton Francesco)(1513–74), Italian popular writer and satirist, born in Florence, the son of a scissors-maker
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