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Vita della picara Giustina Diez.
Vita della picara Giustina Diez.
€ 700

LÓPEZ DE UBEDA, Francisco. Vita della picara Giustina Diez.

Venice, appresso Barezzo Barezzi., 1624-25

2 volumes, octavo (159×107mm). I: [12], 206 [i.e. 204] leaves. II: [16], 259, [1] leaves. Printer's device on both title-pages and at the end of the second volume. Woodcut historiated initials and ornaments throughout. Bound in seventeenth-century limp vellum with manuscript title on spine. Some dampstaining at the end of the first volume and throughout the second volume. A good copy.

The first Italian edition of the picaresque novel La pícara Justina, first printed in Medina del Campo in 1605. While inspired by Mateo Alemán's highly influential Guzmán de Alfarache (1604), La pícara Justina is notable in the picaresque genre for featuring a female protagonist instead of the traditional male one. The present Italian translation was curated by the Cremonese printer and translator Barezzo Barezzi, who is credited for introducing the picaresque genre into Italy.

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