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Bokkachch’o. Fiametta. Per. M. Kuzmina [Boccaccio. Fiammetta. Translated by M. Kuzmin].

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Extremely rare first edition of Kuzmin’s translation of Boccaccio’s Fiammetta.

‘The Fiammetta is the first prose romance in which the heroine is made the narrator, and in which the vicissitudes of sentiment are the matter of the story... Boccaccio is the inventor of one of the principal types of the modern novel’ (W.P. Ker).

No copy recorded in OCLC.

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