Storia del Bacio

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Roma: Donzelli editore, 1995. First Edition (presumed; no prior editions or printings cited). 12mo with grey cloth boards in white and red pictorial jacket; xi, 115 pages; 18 cm. F ine in near fine(-) mildly soiled jacket, with slightest rubbing to extremities and tiny patch of foxing to interior of rear fold. Price sticker to rear jacket. Hardcover. ISBN: 8879891774In Italian. Translated from the Danish original. Uncommon. A history of the kiss by Kristoffer Nyrop, a preeminent European philologist, explores the allegorical, ritual, literary, religious, legal and diplomatic meanings of the kiss as an earthly and sacred gesture. Seems fascinating! Show more