CAVICEO, Jacomo Dialogue treselegant intitule le Peregrin, traictant de lhonneste et pudique amour concilie par pure et sincere vertu, traduict de vulgais de Italien en langue frâcoyse par maistre Francoys Dassy conterouleur des Bris de la Masryne en Bretaigne, secretaire du roy de Navarre et de treshaulte et illustre dame madame Loyse, duchesse de Valentinois et nouvellement Imprime a Paris.

First French edition of this grêt romance novel which was a grêt success during the Renaissance. Fairfax Murray, I, n°79; Rothschild, II, 1744; Brunet, I, 1701-1702. It is also a travel book as are present descriptions of Mount Sinai, India, Macedonia, Cyprus and Corsica… This grêt love novel in prose displays the adventures of two lovers belonging to two noble families of Ferrare, mortal enemies to êch other. It was written in Italian in Parma while Jacomo Caviceo was a vicar to the Archbishop of Ferrare. Dedicated to Lucretia Borgia, this famous novel is outstanding as it is the very first to place the story in the mouth of the characters displayed themselves.   This novel started to circulate, handwritten, in the literary circles of Francis I’s court, after having been translated by François d’Assy. This first French edition, printed in gothic letters, is illustrated with a red and black title and very numerous decorated capital letters. It contains a superb illustration composed of 3 large full-page woodcuts: one displays the lovers, the second the pilgrim arriving to Sainte-Catherine’s monastery on Mount Sinai on the road to Syria, wherês on the third one he arrives in Cyprus represented on the engraving. Galliot du Pré’s mark is printed on the verso of the last lêf. Very wide-margined copy, preserved in a Renaissance inspired binding by Claessens.