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![Lor 251—continued. extra by Thompson of Paris. Quadrio, in his Storia e ragione d’ogni poesia, tom. vi, pp. 581, 582, says: Questo romanzo detto il Guerino di Durazzo, soprannomato I] Meschino . . . fu gia in volgar drosa composto da un certo Maestro Andrea Fiorentino. L’ incontro che ebbe quest’ opera fu quello, che ne fece moltiplicar |’ edizioni ; e mossi altresi gli stanieri a portarla nelle materne loro favelle, &c. He afterwards speaks of the French translation by Jean Decuchermoys, printed at Lyons in 1530, and at Paris in 1532, as ‘“ ben bizzarro e galante,” and as containing only a small part of the original. The translation in the present MS. is entirely different from that which has been printed. It is increased to perhaps double the extent of the original romance ; the greatest amplification being in the 7th and 8th books, which are equal in volume to the first six altogether. There are erasures at the end of the 4th and at the end of the 8th book; the passages obliterated probably contained the information that the work was translated from the Italian, and the date of the performance. The great popularity of the original is alluded to by Quadrio in the extract quoted above. Tullia d’ Aragona turned the prose romance into Italian verse, about the middle of the sixteenth century. 252. GUERRA DEL CANAMAL. CARTA EXECUTORIA DE HIDALGUIA A PEDIMYENTO DE GASPAR GUERRA DEL CANAMAL, VEZINO DE LA CIUDAD DE SEVILLA. (DAT. GRANADA, 30 AUG. 1610). (VIII) folio *,.* MS. OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY, ON VELLUM, ff. 53. Modern boarded blue morocco, gilt ornamental floreate back and _ borders, arms of Spain inlaid in upper cover, with the leaden bull of Philip III inserted in under cover. THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST RICHLY EXECUTED BOOKS OF THE KIND, it contains 7 full-page illuminations within borders of trophies, birds, flowers, nude figures, saints, angels, cherubs, dc., there are 4 small finely painted miniatures in the teat, and 15 beautiful painted and illuminated ornamental initials, every page of the teat is within a sine border of flowers and fruit, the paintings are of high class, and include a portrait of the Hidalgo, a white unfilled block being left for that of his wife, a very fine miniature portrait of Philip III is on the penultimate leaf. The usual official signatures are on the last leaf. 253. GUGLIELMO Duca D’AQUITANIA ROMITO; POEMA DRAMMATICO IN CINQUE ATTI. (DCXLI) small 4to Prologo. Perche s’ inarca il ciglio ? D’onde d’onde deriva Si gran stupor. *,* MS. OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, on paper. ff. 83, in small Italian running hand, long lines, 32 to a page, an engraved border by G. Viscardi inserted in front. Green morocco.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31813756_0100.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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