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SIENA 1767 -- Relazione delle feste fatte in Siena nell'ingresso delle loro altezze reali il Serenissimo Pietro Leopoldo Principe Reale d'Ungheria, e di Boemia, Arciduca d'Austria, e Gran Duca di Toscana e della Serenissima Maria Luisa Infanta di Spagna Arciduchess d'Austria, e Gran Duchessa di Toscana. Florence: Gaetano Cambiagi, 1767.
4o (227 x 170 mm). 3 engraved folding plates. Original flexible paper boards, uncut (some soiling). Provenance: Gloucestershire County Library (ink stamp on inside front cover and verso of title-page).
The account of the festivites which took place in May 1767 during the visit to Siena of PETER LEOPOLD (1747-1972), Archduke of Austria and Grand Duke of Tuscany, and his wife MARIA LUISA (1745-1792), Infanta of Spain. The plates illustrate the design of a parterre constructed for a ball to be held in the Grand Piazza, a procession of festival chariots and a military parade, and a triumphal arch. Included at the end is a list of those who participated in the procession. Watanabe 1372.
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The account of the festivites which took place in May 1767 during the visit to Siena of PETER LEOPOLD (1747-1972), Archduke of Austria and Grand Duke of Tuscany, and his wife MARIA LUISA (1745-1792), Infanta of Spain. The plates illustrate the design of a parterre constructed for a ball to be held in the Grand Piazza, a procession of festival chariots and a military parade, and a triumphal arch. Included at the end is a list of those who participated in the procession. Watanabe 1372.