Tales from Boccaccio

Mount Vernon: Peter Pauper Press. , 1947.. A very good copy.. Binding: contemporary full illustrated black cloth, title on flat spine., Notes: Jean de La Fontaine (1621–1695) was a French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. He is known above all for his Fables, which provided a model for subsequent fabulists across Europe and numerous alternative versions in France, as well as in French regional languages. The numerous works of La Fontaine fall into three traditional divisions: the Fables, the Tales and the miscellaneous (including dramatic) works. He is best known for the first of these, in which a tradition of fable collecting in French verse reaching back to the Middle Ages was brought to a peak. Although these earlier works refer to Aesop in their title, they collected many fables from more recent sources. Among the foremost were Marie de France's Ysopet (1190) and Gilles Corrozet’s Les Fables du très ancien Esope, mises en rithme françoise (1542).


, Size: 8vo., , Illustration: Translated to English from French
English from the Translation of Jean De La Fontaine
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