Author: [THOUSAND AND ONE DAYS - ITALIAN].
Title: Novelle persiane divise in mille ed una giornata, tradotte dal francese e dal francese in volgare italiano. Vol. primo [-quinto]. Venice, Santini, 1810. 5 volumes bound as 2. 12mo. Contemporary gold-stamped half brown cloth, marbled paper sides, with the title and volume number stamped in black on the spine.
Description: 172, 168, 176; 179, [1], 200 pp.Charming Italian edition of the Heyaryek-Rouz or Thousand and One Days, so called to “give the work an air of originality” (Chauvin IV, 124). A Persian manuscript of this work was given to Francois Petit de la Croix in Isfahan in 1675, but enjoyed far fewer editions and translations than the Alf layla wa-layla. As Chauvin notes, it cannot be determined whether the Thousand and One Days or the Thousand and One Nights was composed first; nevertheless, to this day the Heyarek-Rouz is much less well-known to the Western world (IV, 123f.). Chauvin quotes one commentator who declares the Heyarek-Rouz “much more ingenious and more realistic, as it sometimes includes marvels, following the taste of the Oriental”.With the bookplate of Luciano Perez mounted on the front pastedowns. The spines (incl. the hinges) are worn, with some loss of material on both spines. A slight stain in the upper blank margin of a few pages of vol. 4. Otherwise in good condition.l OPAC SBN ITICCUTO0E074381 (11 copies, incl. 5 incomplete); WorldCat 57504717, 1040084656 (2 copies, incl. 1 incomplete); cf. this edition not in Chauvin.

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