151 - [Basile, Giambattista]. *La chiaqlira dla banzola* or, to put it another way, various tales translated from the Neapolitan dialect into the Bolognese language. Bologna, Pisarri, 1742. First edition of the translation into the Bolognese dialect

[Basile, Giambattista]. *La chiaqlira dla banzola* or, to put it another way, various tales translated from the Neapolitan dialect into the Bolognese language. Bologna, Pisarri, 1742. First edition of the translation into the Bolognese dialect [Basile, Giambattista]. *La chiaqlira dla banzola o per dir mii fol divers*, translated from the Neapolitan dialect into the Bolognese language. Bologna, Pisarri, 1742. Quarto (175 x 133 mm); [12], 338 pages. Eyelet, frontispiece engraved by Carlo Pisarri, frieze on the title page (the last page is likely missing; damage to the lower corner of the last leaf with partial loss of text; sporadic flourishes.) Contemporary half-parchment binding with corner pieces, smooth spine with handwritten title. First edition of the translation into the Bolognese dialect of Giambattista Basile’s *Lo cunto de li cunti*, carried out by Maddalena and Teresa Manfredi and by Teresa and Angiola Zanotti. A unique 18th-century literary undertaking that transposes the famous collection of Neapolitan fairy tales into the Bolognese dialect tradition, adapting its narrative and linguistic vitality. First edition of the translation into the Bolognese dialect