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London, printed for J. Dodsley, 1774. First edition of this translation by Richard Graves, 12mo, pp. xxiii, [1], 192; a very good copy in later dark brown calf and marbled paper-covered boards, lettered in gilt on spine, the binding firm though the front joint is rather rubbed. Della Casa (1503-1556), born near Florence and educated in Rome and Bologna, was a true "Renaissance Man": academician, orator, archbishop of Benevento, poet, and author of several prose works. Written at the request of Galeazzo Florimonte and first published in 1558, Il Galateo was the most celebrated of these, a manual for polite behavior. It was first translated into English in 1576 by Robert Peterson. Heltzel 295.

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