‎BOCCACCIO, GIOVANNI.‎
‎Le Decameron de Maistre Iean Bocace Florentin. Traduict d'italien en francois par Maistre Anthoine le Macon.‎

‎Rouen, Robert Dare, 1645. 8vo. In contemporary full vellum. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Soiling and miscolouring to extremities. Internally nice and clean. (32), 1108, (12) pp.‎

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‎Rare later Rouen-edition of Le Macon's French translation of Boccaccio's Decameron. Le Maçon became private secretary to Margaret, Queen of Navarre. To please the princess, who loved letters and novels he undertook a translation into French of Boccaccio's Decameron - the first made directly from the original Italian. It was first published in 1645.OCLC only list 5 copies. (Brunet I, 1006: “Cette traduction justement estimée”)‎