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[CHIARUGI, Vincenzo (1759-1820) and Count Marco COVONI-GIROLAMI.] Regolamento dei Regi Spedali di Santa Maria Nuova e di Bonifazio. Florence: Gaetano Cambiagi, 1789.
4° (263 x 200mm.). Engraved frontispiece, folding engraved diagram of staff employed, 28 tables including 2 folding and 22 double-page, 9 folding engraved plates including 2 plans of the hospitals. (Small, clean tears along folds of a few plates, occasional light spotting.) Contemporary vellum, spine lettered in gilt (but torn with loss and repaired).
FIRST EDITION of the reformed regulations for the hospitals of Santa Maria Nuovo and San Bonifazio in Florence. In 1788, following Chiarugi's suggestion that the old Bonifazio hospital be renovated and used for the treatment of the insane, Bonifazio's was officially reopened and, with Santa Maria, placed under direct state control. When the time came to reprint the regulations for the hospital of Santa Maria Nuova issued a few years earlier by Covoni-Girolami, Chiarugi, as the new director of San Bonifazio, was asked to add a section on the statutes governing his hospital. The structures established by Chiarugi, including new humane criteria for the treatment of the insane, became models for the rest of Europe. The Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (vol. 24) describes this book as "The first text in which the 18th-century reform movement permeates an area of life long anchored to prescientific attitudes". It is the first appearance in print of Chiarugi's ground-breaking reforms in the care of the mentally ill, which were to be more fully described in his Della Pazzia in genere, e in specie in 1793.
The plates, by the Cecchi family after B. Buontalenti, S. Pacini, L. Mulinelli, G. Salvetti and L. Martelli, illustrate exterior views and illustrations of of the hospitals, as well as the kitchens of Santa Maria, which contained the hot water system for the entire hospital. This copy has the 'T.II U' version of the plate showing kitchen equipment, which shows all the figures listed for it on leaves 9<->2v-9<->3v, rather than the less complete plate 'T.II B' in the Haskell F. Norman copy. The Norman copy also makes no mention of the plates by Buontalenti and Martelli. Haskell F. Norman Library 474.
4° (263 x 200mm.). Engraved frontispiece, folding engraved diagram of staff employed, 28 tables including 2 folding and 22 double-page, 9 folding engraved plates including 2 plans of the hospitals. (Small, clean tears along folds of a few plates, occasional light spotting.) Contemporary vellum, spine lettered in gilt (but torn with loss and repaired).
FIRST EDITION of the reformed regulations for the hospitals of Santa Maria Nuovo and San Bonifazio in Florence. In 1788, following Chiarugi's suggestion that the old Bonifazio hospital be renovated and used for the treatment of the insane, Bonifazio's was officially reopened and, with Santa Maria, placed under direct state control. When the time came to reprint the regulations for the hospital of Santa Maria Nuova issued a few years earlier by Covoni-Girolami, Chiarugi, as the new director of San Bonifazio, was asked to add a section on the statutes governing his hospital. The structures established by Chiarugi, including new humane criteria for the treatment of the insane, became models for the rest of Europe. The Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (vol. 24) describes this book as "The first text in which the 18th-century reform movement permeates an area of life long anchored to prescientific attitudes". It is the first appearance in print of Chiarugi's ground-breaking reforms in the care of the mentally ill, which were to be more fully described in his Della Pazzia in genere, e in specie in 1793.
The plates, by the Cecchi family after B. Buontalenti, S. Pacini, L. Mulinelli, G. Salvetti and L. Martelli, illustrate exterior views and illustrations of of the hospitals, as well as the kitchens of Santa Maria, which contained the hot water system for the entire hospital. This copy has the 'T.II U' version of the plate showing kitchen equipment, which shows all the figures listed for it on leaves 9<->2v-9<->3v, rather than the less complete plate 'T.II B' in the Haskell F. Norman copy. The Norman copy also makes no mention of the plates by Buontalenti and Martelli. Haskell F. Norman Library 474.