BODONI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA. Autograph note to Napoleon WITH HIS SIGNATURE ("BONAPARTE") AS FIRST CONSUL, Paris, 7 Thermidor, l'an 8 [26 July 1800]. 1 page, 8vo, 184 x 115 mm. (7 x 4 in.). Bodoni indirectly requests Napoleon's patronage for an edition of Homer to be published in Greek, Latin, Italian, and French. Justly famous for his work for the Ducal Court of Parma, Bodoni never realized his ambition to receive a Napoleonic commission.