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FULGENZO DELLA CROCE. Opuscoli varj. N.p. [Italy, Naples?], 1757.
4o (214 x 158 mm). Manuscript in red and black ink on paper written by an Italian writing master in close imitation of a contemporary printed book. Contemporary sheep, gilt edges (rubbed and wormed).
An interesting specimen of a presentation copy to a high ranking person chosen as his patron by an 18th-century author. The scribe (who may be identical with the author) has succeeded in imitaiting the style of an elegantly printed book of the period in every detail of arrangement, exectly reproducing Roman types in different sizes and italics, titles (in red and black), even putting signatures on some margins. The volume, marked "TOME I" (which indicates the intention of producing further volumes in the same manner) contains poetic works of a Friar Fulgenzo della Croce of the Order of the barefooted Carmelites, including panegyrical poems on the Empress Maria Theresia and her victories in the Seven years War. Fulgenzo dedicated the work to Count Carl Joseph von Firmian, who was Maria Theresia's ambassador to the Court of Naples, and, from 1758 to his death in 1782, her Governor of Milan.
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An interesting specimen of a presentation copy to a high ranking person chosen as his patron by an 18th-century author. The scribe (who may be identical with the author) has succeeded in imitaiting the style of an elegantly printed book of the period in every detail of arrangement, exectly reproducing Roman types in different sizes and italics, titles (in red and black), even putting signatures on some margins. The volume, marked "TOME I" (which indicates the intention of producing further volumes in the same manner) contains poetic works of a Friar Fulgenzo della Croce of the Order of the barefooted Carmelites, including panegyrical poems on the Empress Maria Theresia and her victories in the Seven years War. Fulgenzo dedicated the work to Count Carl Joseph von Firmian, who was Maria Theresia's ambassador to the Court of Naples, and, from 1758 to his death in 1782, her Governor of Milan.