{"product_id":"barbieri-giovanni-maria-ed-fino-alemanio","title":"BARBIERI, Giovanni Maria, ed. FINO, Alemanio","description":"\u003cp\u003eRare second edition of Barbieri s (1519-74) Italian prose rendering of the Niccolò da Casola s C14th Franco-Italian poem by the same name. Barbieri s version was first published Ferrara 1568, this Venice edition by an obscure Italian author, Alemanio Fino, with summaries of each book and a glossary explaining difficult Italian words to the rear. \u003cbr\u003e\n The Bolognese humanist Casola s poem was based on a prose version from the French romance tradition, the Estoire d Atile en Ytaire, which was likely derived from earlier Latin sources. In Barbieri s preface, which is preserved in this edition, he describes manuscript sources found in the archives of the Este family - dukes of Ferrara and patrons of both Barbieri and da Casola - acknowledging da Casola but also harking back to an almost certainly fictitious Latin source, a contemporary account of the Hunnic invasion and sack of Aquileia in 452 AD by Tomaso d Aquileia, secretary to the C5th Nicetas, Archbishop of the city. \u003cbr\u003e\n Da Casola s poem begins with a knights  tournament, staged by King Ostrubal of Hungary to find a husband suitable for his daughter. However, just before she is due to marry the victor, against her wishes, she is impregnated by a greyhound that shares her bed, and gives birth to Attila, half-dog and half-man. Barbieri confirms that Attila had a canine appearance and ferocity, but discounts da Casola s romantic version of his birth, writing that Attila was simply a noble scion of the Huns who learned his feral ways in the forests of his homeland. He does, however, retain the chivalric aspects of da Casola s version, especially its tournaments and combats between noble knights, in telling the story of Attila s invasion of Italy and battles with the King of Padua and with Foresto, legendary ancestor and first prince of the Este family, who dies during the siege of Aquileia.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BARBIERI, Giovanni Maria, ed. FINO, Alemanio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57868720669007,"sku":"L3874","price":1950.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/titlepage-3_9c253032-cc82-49e5-900f-3630f13e81c2.png?v=1781793356","url":"https:\/\/www.sokol.co.uk\/products\/barbieri-giovanni-maria-ed-fino-alemanio","provider":"Sokol Books Ltd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}