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The Book of the Courtier

LIST OF EDITIONS

Leonard Eckstein Opdycke translation

THE LANGUAGE IS ITALIAN UNLESS OTHERWISE INDICATED

DATES AND NAMES ENCLOSED IN PARENTHESES ARE NOT FREE FROM DOUBT

1528 Venice Aldine Press: fol.: April: opd

1528 Florence The heirs of Filippo di Giunta: 8vo: October: opd

(1529) Tusculano Alessandro Paganino: 12mo: stm

1529 Florence The heirs of Filippo di Giunta: 8vo: opd

1530 Parma Antonio di Viotti: 8vo: opd

1531 Florence Benedetto Giunti: 8vo: opd

1531 Parma Antonio di Viotti: 8vo: ves

1532 Parma Antonio di Viotti: 8vo: stm

1533 Venice Aldine Press: 8vo: with a few poems by Castiglione: exd

1534 Barcelona Pedro Monpezat: fol.: Spanish version by Juan Boscan Almogaver: fab

1537 Florence Benedetto Giunti: 8vo: brm

1537 Paris For Jean Longis and Vincent Sertenas: 8vo: French version by Jacques Colin: exd

(1537) Lyons Denys de Harsy: 8vo: Colin’s French version: opd

1538 Venice Vettor de’ Rabani and associates: 8vo: stm

1538 Venice Giovanni Padovano for Federico Torresano d’Asola: 8vo: exd

1538 Venice Curzio Navò and brothers: 8vo: cor

1538 Lyons Françoys Juste: 8vo: Colin’s French version revised by Estienne Dolet: exd

1539 Venice Curzio Navò for Alvise Tortis: 8vo: stm

1539 s. l. Printer not mentioned: 8vo: abbreviation by Scipio Claudio: maz

1539 Toledo Printer not mentioned: 4to: Boscan’s Spanish version: fab

1540 Salamanca Pedro Touans for Guillermo de Milles: 4to: Boscan’s Spanish version: ace

1540 Paris Printer not mentioned: 8vo: (Colin’s) French version: ala

1541 Venice Aldine Press: 8vo: opd

1541 Venice Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari: 12mo: stm

(1541) s. l. “T-A”: 4to: Boscan’s Spanish version: fab

1542 Medina Printer not mentioned: 4to: Boscan’s Spanish version: brm

(1542) s. l. Printer not mentioned: 4to: Boscan’s Spanish version: bnm

1543 Venice Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari: 8vo: pas

1544 Venice Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari: 8vo: opd

1544 Venice Alvise de Tortis: 8vo: chi

1544 Antwerp Martin Nucio: 8vo: Boscan’s Spanish version: fab

1544 s. l. Printer not mentioned: 8vo: maz

1545 Venice Aldine Press: fol.: opd

1545 Paris Printer not mentioned: 12mo: (Colin’s) French version: brm

1546 Venice Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari: 8vo: exd

1546 Paris For Arnoul l’Angelier: 12mo: Colin’s French version: opd

1547 Venice Aldine Press: 8vo: opd

1547 Venice Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari: 8vo: maz

1549 Venice Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari: 12mo: chi

1549 Venice Alvise de Tortis: 8vo: vel

1549 Paris Gelles Corrozet: ——: (Colin’s) French version: bnt

1549 Paris Jean Lor——: 16mo: (Colin’s) French version: vel

4201549 s. l. Printer not mentioned: 4to: Boscan’s Spanish version: ves

1550 Lyons Gulielmo Rovillio: 16mo: opd

1551 Venice Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari and brothers: 12mo: stm

1552 Venice Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari and brothers: 8vo: text revised by Ludovico Dolce: exd

1552 Venice Domenico Giglio: 12mo: opd

1553 Lyons Gulielmo Rovillio: 12mo: brm

1553 Saragossa For Miguel de Çapila: 8vo: Boscan’s Spanish version: fab

1554 Florence The heirs of Bernardo Giunti: 16mo: stm

1556 Venice Girolamo Scoto: 8vo: Dolce’s text: cav

1556 Venice Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari: 8vo: Dolce’s text: stm

1559 Venice Simbeni for Bernardin Fagiani: 8vo: with Paolo Giovio’s Life of Castiglione: cav

1559 Venice Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari: 8vo: Dolce’s text: brm

1559 Toledo Printer not mentioned: 4to: Boscan’s Spanish version: maz

1560 Venice Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari: 8vo: Dolce’s text: brm

1561 London William Seres: 4to: English version by Thomas Hoby: brm

1561 Antwerp The widow of Martin Nutio: 8vo: Boscan’s Spanish version: ala

1561 Wittenberg Johannes Crato: 4to: Latin version by Hieronymus Turler: jen

1562 Venice Francesco Rampazzetto: 12mo: cav

1562 Venice Printer not mentioned: 8vo: with Giovio’s Life: opd

1562 Lyons Gulielmo Rovillio: 12mo: Dolce’s text: opd

1562 Venice Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari: 12mo: ang

1563 Venice Same edition as the last, with change of date on title-page: maz

1564 Venice Same edition as the last, with change of date on title-page: stm

1564 s. l. Printer not mentioned: 8vo: edition erroneously dated “MDXLIV”: ves

1565 Venice Gerolamo Cavalcalovo: 12mo: Dolce’s text: stm

1566 Munich Adam Berg: 8vo: German version by Lorenz Kratzer: vat

1568 Venice Domenico: 12mo: brm

1569 Venice Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari: 12mo: vel

1569 Wittenberg (Johannes Crato): 8vo: Turler’s Latin version: maz

1569 Valladolid Francisco Fernandez de Cordoba: 8vo: Boscan’s Spanish version expurgated: brm

1571 London John Day: 8vo: Latin version by Bartholomew Clerke: brm

1573 Venice Comin da Trino: 8vo: with Giovio’s Life: opd

1574 Venice Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari: 8vo: maz

1574 Venice Comin da Trino: 8vo: maz

1574 Venice Domenico Farri: 12mo: Dolce’s text: exd

1574 Antwerp Philippo Nucio: 8vo: Boscan’s Spanish version: exd

1577 Antwerp Philippo Nucio: 8vo: Boscan’s Spanish version: bts

1577 Strasbourg Bernhardus Jobinus: 8vo: Latin version of Book I by Johannes Ritius: ves

1577 London Henry Bynneman: 8vo: Clerke’s Latin version: exd

1577 London Henry Denham: 4to: Hoby’s English version: brm

(1577) Paris Pierre Gaultier: 16mo: Colin’s French version: opd

1580 Lyons Thibauld Ancelin for Loys Cloquemin: 8vo: French version by Gabriel Chapuis with text: stm

1581 Salamanca Pedro Lasso: 8vo: Boscan’s Spanish version: ols

1584 Venice Bernardo Basa: 8vo: text expurgated by Ciccarelli, with Life by Marliani: stm

1584 Frankfort Bernhardus Jobinus: 8vo: Latin version by Johannes Ritius: ala

1585 London Thomas Dauson: 8vo: Clerke’s Latin version: brm

1585 Lyons Claude Bourcidan for Jean Huguetan: 8vo: Chapuis’ French version with text: vel

1585 Paris Nicholas Bonfons: 8vo: Chapuis’ French version with text: exd

1585 Paris Georges l’Oyselet for Cl. Micard: 8vo: Chapuis’ French version: exd

4211587 Venice Curzio Navò and brothers: 8vo: d’a

1587 Venice Domenico Giglio: 12mo: exd

1588 London John Wolfe: 8vo: Hoby’s English version revised, with text and Chapuis’ French version: opd

1592 Paris Nicholas Bonfons for Abel l’Angelier: 8vo: Chapuis’ French version with text: exd

1593 Venice La Miniana Compagnia: 8vo: Ciccarelli’s expurgation: stm

1593 London George Bishop: 8vo: Clerke’s Latin version: exd

1593 Dilingen Johann Mayer: 8vo: German version by Johann Engelbert Noyse: ang

1599 Venice Paulo Ugolini: 16mo: Ciccarelli’s expurgation, with Marliani’s Life: ang

1599 Antwerp Philippo Nucio: 8vo: Boscan’s Spanish version expurgated: maz

s. d. s. l. Printer not mentioned: 4to: Boscan’s Spanish version: bnm

1600 Florence (The heirs of Filippo di Giunta): 4to: d’a

1601 Venice Giovanni Alberti: ——: jol

1603 London T. Creede: 4to: Hoby’s English version: brm

1603 London George Bishop: 8vo: Clerke’s Latin version: brm

1606 Venice Giovanni Alberti: 8vo: ves

1606 Frankfort Lazarus Zetzner: 8vo: Clerke’s Latin version: amb

1612 London Thomas Adams: 8vo: Clerke’s Latin version: brm

1619 Strasbourg Bernhardus Jobinus: 8vo: Ritius’s Latin version: cas

1619 Strasbourg The heirs of Lazarus Zetzner: 8vo: Clerke’s Latin version: brm

1663 Strasbourg For Simon Paullus: 8vo: Clerke’s Latin version: exd

1667 Strasbourg Bernhardus Jobinus: 8vo: Ritius’s Latin version: maz

1668 Zürich Printer not mentioned: 8vo: Ritius’s Latin version: maz

1684 Frankfort For Carl Schaeffer: ——: German version by “J. C. L. L. J.”: rei

1690 Paris Estienne Massot for Estienne Loyson: 12mo: French version by (L’Abbé Duhamel): exd

1713 Cambridge William Innys: 8vo: Clerke’s Latin version revised by S. Drake: exd

1724 London A. Battesworth and others: 8vo: English version by Robert Samber: nyp

1727 London W. Bowyer: 4to: English version by A. P. Castiglione, with Life and text: opd

1729 London E. Curll: 8vo: Samber’s English version: brm

1733 Padua Giuseppe Comino: 4to: Volpi edition, with other works by Castiglione and Marliani’s Life: opd

1737 London Olive Payne: identical with edition of 1727, title-page changed: opd

1742 London H. Slater and others: identical with edition of 1727, title-page changed: opd

1766 Padua Giuseppe Comino: 4to: Volpi edition, with Life by Pierantonio Serassi: opd

1771 Vicenza Giambattista Vendramini Mosca: 8vo: 2 volumes, with Serassi’s Life: opd

(1772) s. l. Printer not mentioned: 8vo: 2 volumes: d’a

1799 Bassano Remondini: 8vo: 3 volumes, including other works by Castiglione: d’a

1803 Milan La Tipografia dei Classici Italiani: 8vo: bnp

1822 Milan Giovanni Silvestri: 8vo: with Serassi’s Life: brm

1828 Bergamo Mazzoleni: 12mo: 2 volumes: bra

1831 Milan Niccolò Bettoni and the brothers Ubicini: 4to: amb

1842 Venice Girolamo Tasso: 8vo: 2 volumes, expurgated, with Serassi’s Life: opd

1844 Parma Fiaccadori: 16mo: expurgated edition: amb

1848 Copenhagen Schultz: 4to: early French version of Book III, edited by N. C. L. Abrahams: exd

1854 Florence Felice Lemonnier: 8vo: annotated by Count Carlo Baudi di Vesme: opd

1873 Madrid Rivadeneyra for Alfonso Durán: 8vo: Boscan’s version annotated by A. M. Fabié: opd

1884 Turin Libreria Salesiana: 16mo: vel

1884 Florence P. Metastasio for G. C. Sansoni: 16mo: with preface by Giulio Salvadori: opd

4221889 Florence Gaspare Barbèra: 8vo: expurgated and annotated by Giuseppe Rigutini: opd

1890 Milan Edoardo Sonzogno: 8vo: with preface by Lodovico Corio: opd

1892 Florence Same edition as that of 1889, with changed date on title-page: opd

1894 Florence Carnesecchi for G. C. Sansoni: 8vo: annotated by Vittorio Cian: opd

1900 London Constable for David Nutt: 8vo: Hoby’s English version edited by Walter Raleigh: opd

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ADDENDUM

1900 London Edward Arnold (Essex House Press): 8vo: Hoby’s English version edited by Janet E. Ashbee, with woodcut ornaments by C. R. Ashbee: opd

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