Matteo Bandello - Het seste deel van de Tragische oft klaechlijcke Historien - 1646

Matteo Bandello - The sixth part of the Tragical or lamentable Histories in which are contained very sad facts, truly happened, as a mirror for all men

The first Rotterdam Waesberghe edition of part 6, very rare!!

Rotterdam, Pieter van Waesberghe, 1646 - parchment - 698 pp - 12 x 7 x 5 cm

The Italian Matteo Bandello gathered around 1550 tales that he had actually heard at Italian and French courts. The Frenchman Belleforest made them still richer. Translated into Dutch they became six thick volumes

Rotterdam, Pieter van Waesberghe, bookseller at 't Steygher in de Swarte Klock, 1646 - parchment - 12mo. [vi of viii], 698 [= 688], [1] pp., frontispiece missing; used, stained, worm-eaten copy (sometimes with some letters of text lost; about half of pp. 429/430 missing)

Very rare loose part (complete in itself) of Bandello’s extremely popular cautionary tales. This sixth part contains 10 novellas.

Buisman 821: "Dutch translation of Matteo Bandello's "Novelle" (Lucca 1554), from: Histoires tragiques [. ] (Paris 1580). Nine volumes, each an independent part [.]. All volumes are very rare in any edition." Muller 5: "Complete copies are the rarest of all."

Contents:
1. Of how cunning a certain Mohammedan priest made him king of Fez, Tremisan, and Morocco, how he was killed, and what revenge his son took on those who had murdered him.
2. The noble heart of a French maiden who, with her husband, was set on a desolate island of the sea, and how she was delivered from it.
3. How Amleth, formerly king of Denmark, by cunning avenged the death of his father Horwendil, slain by his own brother Fengo, and more of his other histories.
4. Cruel and grisly deeds of some citizens against a certain maiden, with the account of what followed therefrom.
5. Great treachery, committed against the life of the holy King Kanuyt, slain in the church next to that of his own kin.
6. How a certain king or cacique on the island Spaenjola rose up against the King of Spain because the royal governor refused him justice. With many other histories concerning this affair.
7. Cruel act of the Lord of Saint John at Ligoure, a Limousin nobleman, who caused his wife and, indeed, his whole household to be carried off and burned his castle in a fit of miserable, raging madness, with his end following thereupon.
8. How the end came to the children of Emperor Frederick II, meanwhile they had fallen away from the church, and he persecuted the Supreme Shepherd, who holds his throne in Rome.
9. Of a young maiden who threw herself into a well and strangled herself, at the behest of a certain student, whom her father would not permit her to marry.
10. Various lamentable histories arising from the calumnies or false accusations of a lover against his beloved, how she was found innocent, and they both died.