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ALTOVITI, Giovanni. Essequie della ... real maesta di Margherita d'Austria, regina di Spagna celebrate [da] Don Cosimo II. Gran duca di Toscana. Florence: Bartolommeo Sermartelli e fratelli, 1612.
2° (304 x 218mm). Title within a typographical border with the arms of Margaret of Austria at centre, 3 full-page etchings by Giulio Parigi and 26 half-page etchings by Jacques Callot, Schiaminossi and Antonio Tempesta. (Repair to the inner margin of the last 3 leaves affects text very slightly.) Modern polished calf.
A scarce and attractive feste book containing a series of 26 engravings illustrating the life of Margaret of Austria, queen-consort of Philip III and sister-in-law to Cosimo II. Her death, at Madrid on 3 October 1611, was publicly commemorated at Florence with a requiem held on 6 February 1612 at the church of San Lorenzo. The 26 illustrations are all after Tempesta, he being responsible for etching six of them, Schiaminossi for five and Callot for the remainder - considered to be the first work done by Callot after his arrival at Florence. The other three illustrations, two of which are signed by Giulio Parigi, show the catafalque and the funeral decorations of the church. They have also been attributed to Callot (Parigi perhaps being responsible only for the drawings) and to Mei Tinghi. Vinet 558; Berlin Katalog 3198; Gamba 2750; Lipperheide 2744.
2° (304 x 218mm). Title within a typographical border with the arms of Margaret of Austria at centre, 3 full-page etchings by Giulio Parigi and 26 half-page etchings by Jacques Callot, Schiaminossi and Antonio Tempesta. (Repair to the inner margin of the last 3 leaves affects text very slightly.) Modern polished calf.
A scarce and attractive feste book containing a series of 26 engravings illustrating the life of Margaret of Austria, queen-consort of Philip III and sister-in-law to Cosimo II. Her death, at Madrid on 3 October 1611, was publicly commemorated at Florence with a requiem held on 6 February 1612 at the church of San Lorenzo. The 26 illustrations are all after Tempesta, he being responsible for etching six of them, Schiaminossi for five and Callot for the remainder - considered to be the first work done by Callot after his arrival at Florence. The other three illustrations, two of which are signed by Giulio Parigi, show the catafalque and the funeral decorations of the church. They have also been attributed to Callot (Parigi perhaps being responsible only for the drawings) and to Mei Tinghi. Vinet 558; Berlin Katalog 3198; Gamba 2750; Lipperheide 2744.