CASA, Giovanni della. 
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Le Galatee, premièrement composé en Italien & depuis mis en François, Latin, Allemand, & Espagnol. Traicté tres utile et tres necessaire, pour bien dresser une ieunesse en toutes manieres et façons. [Genève], Jean des Tournes, 1609. 16mo. [XVI], 619, [5] p. (last 2 leaves blank) With a woodcut printer's mark. Vellum laced case binding with yapp edges. Endbands of blue silk.
---One of the most influential Renaissance courtesy books in French, Italian, Spanish, German and Latin--- Beautiful Polyglot parallel edition of this very important courtesy book. It is printed in 5 languages which are presented next to each other on one opening in different type. French in a beautiful Civilité, German in a Fraktur, Spanish in a Roman type, Italian in Italics and Latin in a more condesed Roman type. The German and Latin translation are made by Nathan Chytraeus, the Spanish one by Domingo de Bezerra. The first Italian edition appeared in 1558 in Venice and was widely read by many generations. Della Casa (1503-1556) wrote the text on request of Galeazzo Florimonte, bisshop of Sessa, and it was named after him Galateo. Even till nowadays there exists an expression in Italian "non cognoscere il Galateo" which means to be brute and uncivilised. -Literature: Cartier, Bibliographie des éditions des De Tournes, no. 753; Carter & Vervliet, Civilité types, p. 107. -Condition: A number in old red ink on the spine; a very fine copy of this influential book.
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