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Hecatommithi, ouero, Cento novelle
Giraldi, Giambattista Cinzio (1504-1573)
1574
"Et vi sono tre Dialoghi della vita civile, li quali a gli huomini mostrano come devono ammaestrare i loro figlivoli, & a giovani come ben reggersi"--t.p. of v. 2. Vol. 2 lacks edition statement. ...
The Spanish decameron, or, Ten novels
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de (1547-1616); Castillo Solórzano, Alonso de (1584-1648?); L'Estrange, Sir Roger (1616-1704)
1687
The first five stories are translated from Cervantes' Novelas exemplares; the others, from Alonso Castillo Solórzano's La garduña de Sevilla. "Licensed, Febr. 17th, 1686, R.P." Translated by Sir...
Hattige, or, The amours of the king of Tamaran : a novel
Brémond, Sébastien; Behn, Aphra (1640-1689)
1683
Preface of the translator signed: B.B. [Aphra Behn?]. Anon., by S. Brémond. "A fictionalized account of Charles II's affair with Lady Castlemaine" -- NUC pre-1956 imprints.
Title: Written in a novel entitled Les malheurs de l'amour
Author: Granville, George; Baron Lansdowne
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt 36
Contents: On the suffering caused by devoted unrequited love for a young woman
The happy slave : a novel. Translated from the French. By a person of quality
Brémond, Sébastien
1677
Indexed in: Wing B4348
The novels and tales of the renowned John Boccacio : the first refiner of Italian prose: containing a hundred curious novels, by seven honourable ladies, and three noble gentlemen, framed in ten days
Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375)
1684
Text continuous despite break in pagination. With a frontispiece portrait of Boccaccio.
Exemplarie novells : in sixe books... full of various accidents both delightfull and profitable
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de (1547-1616); Mabbe, James (1572-1642?)
1640
1st ed. in English. A translation of Novelas ejemplares. Don Diego de Puede-ser is James Mabbe (see NCBEL). R.M. is Ralph Mabb (see STC). Author's preface, referring to women, discusses benefi...
The Mock-Clelia : Being a comical history of French gallantries, and novels, in imitation of Dom Quixote. Translated out of French
Subligny sieur de (1640-1679)
1678
Anon., by A. T. Perdou de Subligny. Pages 225-260 omitted in numbering; gap in signatures at the same point - P8 followed by Aa1, but nothing appears to be missing from the text. Title page is a c...
Il primo volume delle novelle del Bandello : nouvamente ristampato, e con diligenza corretto. Con una aggiunta d'alcuni sensi morali dal S. Ascanio Centorino de gli Hortensii à ciascuna novella fatti (v.1)
Bandello, Matteo (1485-1561); Centorio, Ascanio
1560
In 3 vols.
Grimalkin, or, The Rebel-cat : a novell : representing the unwearied attempts of the beasts of his faction against sovereignty and succession since the death of the lyons in the Tower
1681
"A satire on the intrigues of the Earl of Shaftesbury and the Duke of Monmouth to alter the succession"--British Museum Catalogue. Signatures: [A]²2 B-D²2. Anon.
Scarron's comical romance, or, A facetious history of a company of strowling stage-players : interwoven with divers choice novels, rare adventures, and amorous intrigues
Scarron, Paul (1610-1660)
1676
Advertisment on Kk2v. J.B. is named as the translator by CBEL.
Squire Oldsapp : or, The night-adventurers. A comedy: as it is acted at His Royal Highness the Duke's theatre
D'Urfey, Thomas (1653-1723)
1679
Page [1] at end, publisher's list. Borrowed largely from several novels and other dramas.