BOCCACCIO, GIOVANNI.

VON ETLICHEN FROWEN. ULM, JOHANN ZAINER, C. 1473.

      Fol. c [100] with 2 colored woodcuts. Depicts Princess Beronice killing her brother in revenge for the murder of her husband and her two little sons. The reverse bears the first printed representation of a rape: the wife of King Drigiagontis is ravished by her Roman captor (left half of image); after her liberation, she revenges her violation and brings her husband the head of her ravisher (right half). Both illustrations accompanied by text with a colored woodcut initial each. - Wide margins slightly spotty and wrinkled; small restored tear at edge. GW 4486. Hain 3333. Schramm V, 76 and 77.