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Florence, from the Author and Publisher, 1833-'45. In 8th large, 240 x 150 mm. 6 volumes, including the 1845 Supplement. Diagrams, tables and tipped-in plates, some folded, burnishing, coeval half-leather binding and light blue marbled cardboard. Ex libris glued to the inside cover with the author's business card § Together in the lot the 9 volumes of History of Tuscany by Lorenzo Pignotti, in a beautiful coeval half leather binding and marbled cardboard, with the monogram of the owner on the spine whose stamp appears on the first leaf, L Santacroce.
Specialist Notes
Repetti's Dictionary is considered a source of primary importance for the study of the Tuscan territory: articles are dedicated to all localities (not only inhabited centres, but also churches, aqueducts, rivers, mountains, streets, etc.) specific, ordered alphabetically.
Pignotti was a very versatile Tuscan writer: he composed poems in blank verse with a pre-Romantic taste (Shakespeare's tomb of 1779 and L'ombra di Pope of 1781; burlesque poems (The donated braid of 1808, inspired by Alexander Pope's Kidnapped Curl); a History of Tuscany in nine volumes, published posthumously in the two-year period 1813-1814; encomiastic poems; a popular essay on a medical topic (Medical instructions for country people. He was also the author of tales, some original, others taken from the heritage of classical tales, above all from Aesop.
Pignotti was a very versatile Tuscan writer: he composed poems in blank verse with a pre-Romantic taste (Shakespeare's tomb of 1779 and L'ombra di Pope of 1781; burlesque poems (The donated braid of 1808, inspired by Alexander Pope's Kidnapped Curl); a History of Tuscany in nine volumes, published posthumously in the two-year period 1813-1814; encomiastic poems; a popular essay on a medical topic (Medical instructions for country people. He was also the author of tales, some original, others taken from the heritage of classical tales, above all from Aesop.
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