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Letteratura eroicomica - Aresca, Paolo Elezeario

The formageid. Playful poem by P. E. A, 1794

Estimate

€ 180 - 220

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€ 232

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Information

Turin, with Francesco Prato, book merchant in Dora Grossa, 1794 (Ivrea, from the printing press of Ludovico Franco, bishop printer, of the Ill.ma citta, and regii uffizi, 1794). In 8th. Woodcut frieze on the title page, on the last page a catalog of Francesco Prato's editorial production, burnishing, abrasion on the upper margin of the title page, rigid cardboard binding from the 19th century. Together in the lot. Domenico Batacchi. The Vulcan network. Heroic poem by the monk Beda Ticchi. Siena, for Francesco Bocconi, 1779. - 2 volumes in one volume, in 12th. Slight foxing, contemporary binding in rigid parchment. 

Specialist Notes

First work: the poem was composed to cheer the guests of Count Giulio Cesare Corsi of Viano in his villa Cremosina. The incipit is an explicit parody of chivalric poems, while the whole work focuses on the praise of cheese in all its varieties, starting from stracchino, celebrated together with Milan: "Milan you are very great, and you are the first / among the beautiful cities of Lombardy / your Stracchin is held in high esteem everywhere". The selection of cheeses is extensive, Piedmontese giuncate, tome, fontine, gruera, robiole etc.

Second work: the place of printing, the printer and the date of publication are false; the edition was printed in Milan by Luigi Mussi in 1812. Parenti, Diz. of places of press, p. 183; Melzi, see 1, p. 120; Gay Lemonnyer, vol. 3, column 1011.

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