![KARAMZIN, Nikolai Mikhailovich (1766-1826). Stikhi i prozy Karamzina. Poesie e prose di Karamzin. Tradotte dal russo per il Dr. Cetti. [Verse and prose by Karamzin. Translated from Russian by Dr Cetti]. Venice: P. Feodosii, 1812.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2019/CKS/2019_CKS_18466_0037_001(karamzin_nikolai_mikhailovich_stikhi_i_prozy_karamzina_poesie_e_prose125335).jpg?w=1)
![KARAMZIN, Nikolai Mikhailovich (1766-1826). Stikhi i prozy Karamzina. Poesie e prose di Karamzin. Tradotte dal russo per il Dr. Cetti. [Verse and prose by Karamzin. Translated from Russian by Dr Cetti]. Venice: P. Feodosii, 1812.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2019/CKS/2019_CKS_18466_0037_000(karamzin_nikolai_mikhailovich_stikhi_i_prozy_karamzina_poesie_e_prose113948).jpg?w=1)
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KARAMZIN, Nikolai Mikhailovich (1766-1826). Stikhi i prozy Karamzina. Poesie e prose di Karamzin. Tradotte dal russo per il Dr. Cetti. [Verse and prose by Karamzin. Translated from Russian by Dr Cetti]. Venice: P. Feodosii, 1812.
Very scarce first edition of this pioneering Italian translation, among the earliest of any Russian literary text. The Italian physician Giandomenico Cetti published the original Russian and his own translation of a few poems by Karamzin, inspired by the 18th-century French tradition. Cetti defined Russian poetry as ‘the least educated Muse in Europe, but with the most harmonic lips’. RBH records no other copies having been offered at auction. SK 1801-1825 3410. Not in Smirnov-Sokol’skii, Moia biblioteka.
Octavo (147 x 103mm). (Minimal spotting, faint water stain at upper gutter of first gathering). Contemporary marbled paper boards, patterned endpapers, spine and boards gilt ruled (extremities somewhat rubbed).
Very scarce first edition of this pioneering Italian translation, among the earliest of any Russian literary text. The Italian physician Giandomenico Cetti published the original Russian and his own translation of a few poems by Karamzin, inspired by the 18th-century French tradition. Cetti defined Russian poetry as ‘the least educated Muse in Europe, but with the most harmonic lips’. RBH records no other copies having been offered at auction. SK 1801-1825 3410. Not in Smirnov-Sokol’skii, Moia biblioteka.
Octavo (147 x 103mm). (Minimal spotting, faint water stain at upper gutter of first gathering). Contemporary marbled paper boards, patterned endpapers, spine and boards gilt ruled (extremities somewhat rubbed).
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