Il cauallier Flortir : la historia doue si ragiona de i ualorosi, & gran gesti, & amori del cauallier Flortir : con altre uarie auenture de molti nobili, & ualorosi cauallieri.

Il cauallier Flortir : la historia doue si ragiona de i ualorosi, & gran gesti, & amori del cauallier Flortir : con altre uarie auenture de molti nobili, & ualorosi cauallieri.

Flortir. Italian.

In Venetia : Per Mìchele Tramezzino, 1565.

[12], 462, [1] leaves ; 16 cm (8vo)

A chivalric romance from the "Palmerín" cycle of romances, of 16th-century Spanish origin. This series of tales relate of the adventures of Palmerin d'Oliva, Emperor of Constantinople, and his descendents. Most works in the series are of uncertain authorship. "Flortir" is the last entry in the Spanish Palmerín series. The cycle is continued with the Portuguese "Palmerin de Inglaterra." Cf. Patchell, Mary. The Palmerin romances in Elizabethan prose fiction.

According to Palau, the Spanish original of this work no longer exists.

A reimpression of Tramezzino's 1554 edition.

A companion volume was published by Tramezzino in the same year (reimpression of his 1560 edition), entitled: Libro secondo del valoroso cavallier Flortir, imperador di Constantinopoli.

Imprint from colophon.

Signatures: a¹² A-3L⁸ 3M⁸ (-3M8).

Palau y Dulcet (2. ed.) 237233n
Grässe, II, p. 603

Italy -- Venice.

PQ4630 .P14 1565 Cage

Folger copy: bound in vellum.

Inscription on verso of last leaf signed: ... Gio ... Battio [?].