Flores, Juan de. L'Histoire d'Aurélio, 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 p., Italian and French juxtaposed text in 2 different sm. types, woodcut printer's mark on title-p., 18th cent. calf, gilt spine w. mor. letterpiece, 16mo. Offsetting from turn-ins, leather over upper joint split.

B. Matulka, Novels of Juan de Flores, p. 471. Cf. Gay-Lemonnyer II, 494 and 594/595; Palau 92511. A popular love story by 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 of this edition in libraries worldwide, including a copy at the Folger Shakespeare library (Shakespeare might have used elements from the story for The Tempest). Attached, from page 201 onward, is the love dialogue "Deiphira" by the Italian architect Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472).