[Erotica] (Juan de Flores). L'Histoire d'Aurelio, et Isabelle en italien et francoys

En laquelle est disputé qui baille plus d'occasion d'aymer, l'homme à la femme, ou la femme à l'homme. Plus la Deiphire de M. Leon Bapatiste Albert, qui enseigne d'eviter l'amour mal commencee. Le tout de nouveau (...) revue & corrigé. Lyon, B. Rigaud, 1574, 287 pp., Italian and French juxtaposed text in 2 different sm. types woodcut printer's mark on title, 18th-century calf, gilt spine w. mor. letterpiece, 16mo.

Offsetting from turn-ins. Upper joint splitting. B. Matulka, Novels of Juan de Flores, p. 471. Cf. Gay-Lemonnyer II, 494 and 594/595; Palau 92511. A popular love story by Juan de Flores (ca.1455 - ca. 1525), first published around 1495 under the title "La Historia de Cerisel Y Mirabella", here in a very rare Lyonese bilingual edition. Only a few copies in libraries worldwide, including a copy in the Folger Shakespeare library. Shakespeare might have used elements from the story for The Tempest. Attached, from page 201 onwards, is the love dialogue "Deiphira" by the Italian architect Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472).