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Magnificent illustrated Rococo book with Italian poetry, printed in Venice/Belluno

[ALPAGO, Cesare a.o.].
Per le nozze del sig.r. Marchese Guglielmo de' Fulcis, cavalier di Malta, maggiore attuale al servizio delle LL. MM. II. RR. con la sig'.ra. contessa Francesca de' Migazzi de Vaal e Sonnenthurn.

Full-page engraved frontispiece within decorative Rococo-border, engraved title within Rococo border including the coat-of-arms of Guglielmo de' Fulcis, engraved full-page colophon on the last leaf, 50 pp. with printed texts: dedication by the editor Cesare Alpago to Christoforo Cardinale di S. Chiesa de' Conti Migazzi di Vaal, dated Belluno, 14 September 1776 (2 pp) and Italian poetry, all within magnificent and richly decorated ornamental and allegorical borders with festive scenes engraved by Felicita Sartori and Giuseppe Camerata (1718-1803) after drawings of Francesco Bartolozzi (1727-1815), and Giovanni Piazzetta (1682-1754); 7 pp. with additional engraved allegorical vignettes, one of which signed on leaf C3 by ''Piazzetta inv.''.

Full-page engraved frontispiece within decorative Rococo-border, engraved title within Rococo border including the coat-of-arms of Guglielmo de' Fulcis, engraved full-page colophon on the last leaf, 50 pp. with printed texts: dedication by the editor Cesare Alpago to Christoforo Cardinale di S. Chiesa de' Conti Migazzi di Vaal, dated Belluno, 14 September 1776 (2 pp) and Italian poetry, all within magnificent and richly decorated ornamental and allegorical borders with festive scenes engraved by Felicita Sartori and Giuseppe Camerata (1718-1803) after drawings of Francesco Bartolozzi (1727-1815), and Giovanni Piazzetta (1682-1754); 7 pp. with additional engraved allegorical vignettes, one of which signed on leaf C3 by ''Piazzetta inv.''.

Full-page engraved frontispiece within decorative Rococo-border, engraved title within Rococo border including the coat-of-arms of Guglielmo de' Fulcis, engraved full-page colophon on the last leaf, 50 pp. with printed texts: dedication by the editor Cesare Alpago to Christoforo Cardinale di S. Chiesa de' Conti Migazzi di Vaal, dated Belluno, 14 September 1776 (2 pp) and Italian poetry, all within magnificent and richly decorated ornamental and allegorical borders with festive scenes engraved by Felicita Sartori and Giuseppe Camerata (1718-1803) after drawings of Francesco Bartolozzi (1727-1815), and Giovanni Piazzetta (1682-1754); 7 pp. with additional engraved allegorical vignettes, one of which signed on leaf C3 by ''Piazzetta inv.''.

Full-page engraved frontispiece within decorative Rococo-border, engraved title within Rococo border including the coat-of-arms of Guglielmo de' Fulcis, engraved full-page colophon on the last leaf, 50 pp. with printed texts: dedication by the editor Cesare Alpago to Christoforo Cardinale di S. Chiesa de' Conti Migazzi di Vaal, dated Belluno, 14 September 1776 (2 pp) and Italian poetry, all within magnificent and richly decorated ornamental and allegorical borders with festive scenes engraved by Felicita Sartori and Giuseppe Camerata (1718-1803) after drawings of Francesco Bartolozzi (1727-1815), and Giovanni Piazzetta (1682-1754); 7 pp. with additional engraved allegorical vignettes, one of which signed on leaf C3 by ''Piazzetta inv.''.

Full-page engraved frontispiece within decorative Rococo-border, engraved title within Rococo border including the coat-of-arms of Guglielmo de' Fulcis, engraved full-page colophon on the last leaf, 50 pp. with printed texts: dedication by the editor Cesare Alpago to Christoforo Cardinale di S. Chiesa de' Conti Migazzi di Vaal, dated Belluno, 14 September 1776 (2 pp) and Italian poetry, all within magnificent and richly decorated ornamental and allegorical borders with festive scenes engraved by Felicita Sartori and Giuseppe Camerata (1718-1803) after drawings of Francesco Bartolozzi (1727-1815), and Giovanni Piazzetta (1682-1754); 7 pp. with additional engraved allegorical vignettes, one of which signed on leaf C3 by ''Piazzetta inv.''.



(Venice, Belluno, Colophon: Nella Stamperia Albrizzi con privilegio dell'Ecc.mo Senato per tutti li rami che adornano le di lui stampe, 1776). Folio. (350 x 250 mm). Original gilt 'Bunt Papier': green wrappers with gilt Rococo ornamental borders and gilt centre piece with allegorical seated figure. Full-page engraved frontispiece within decorative Rococo-border, engraved title within Rococo border including the coat-of-arms of Guglielmo de' Fulcis, engraved full-page colophon on the last leaf, 50 pp. with printed texts: dedication by the editor Cesare Alpago to Christoforo Cardinale di S. Chiesa de' Conti Migazzi di Vaal, dated Belluno, 14 September 1776 (2 pp) and Italian poetry, all within magnificent and richly decorated ornamental and allegorical borders with festive scenes engraved by Felicita Sartori and Giuseppe Camerata (1718-1803) after drawings of Francesco Bartolozzi (1727-1815), and Giovanni Piazzetta (1682-1754); 7 pp. with additional engraved allegorical vignettes, one of which signed on leaf C3 by ''Piazzetta inv.''. (= 28 lvs.). (A8, B-C10).

Very rare copy of a collection of laudatory poems in Italian, edited and collected by Cesare Arpago, with poems by Arpago himself and Alvise Mocenigo, Daniele Florio, Giorgio di Polcenico, Gasparo Gozzi, V. Masini, Zaccaria Betti, Ab. Bettinelli, and others, in honour of Marchese Guglielmo de Fulcis, cavalier di Malta, maggiore attuale al servizio delle LL. MM. II. RR. con la sigra. countess Francesca de Migazzi de Vaal e Sonnenthurn. A fine example of 18th-century Rococo Venetian bookillustration.

Very good copy.- (Binding a bid faded and frayed).
Morazzoni, Il libro illustrato veneziano del settecento, p.297; not in Berlin Kat.; only 3 copies found recorded in institutions: Harvard Houghton Library, Boston museum of Fine arts and one in Italy; OCLC 26903707.

Related Subjects: Italy  Malta  Poetry 

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