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SALVADORI, Andrea. Guerra di bellezza. Festa a cavallo fatta in Firenze per la venuta del serenissimo principe d'Urbino. L'ottobre del 1616. Florence: Zanobi Pignoni, 1616.
4° (209 x 145mm). 5 engraved plates and engraved title armorial by Jacques Callot (Lieure 178-83) after Jules Parigi, trimmed to plate and mounted, on guards, woodcut initials and tailpieces, typographical ornament headpiece. (Title slightly soiled, a few small abrasions or spots in plates.) 18th-century speckled calf, gilt spine. Provenance: "Toulouse, August 1809" (inscribed on front pastedown).
A great public pageant was held in October 1616 at Florence on the occasion of a visit of the prince of Urbino. The feast began with a parade of allegoric chariots celebrationg strength, fame, and love and ended with a "guerra di bellezza". The famous engineer and architect Giulio Parigi created the chariots and organised the decoration of Santa Croce square. Callot, Parigi's pupil, finished the design of the chariots and engraved them in a series that, according to Lieure, is extremely rare. Berlin Kat. 3042; Cicognara 1421. BL 17th-Century Itlian II, p. 813.
4° (209 x 145mm). 5 engraved plates and engraved title armorial by Jacques Callot (Lieure 178-83) after Jules Parigi, trimmed to plate and mounted, on guards, woodcut initials and tailpieces, typographical ornament headpiece. (Title slightly soiled, a few small abrasions or spots in plates.) 18th-century speckled calf, gilt spine. Provenance: "Toulouse, August 1809" (inscribed on front pastedown).
A great public pageant was held in October 1616 at Florence on the occasion of a visit of the prince of Urbino. The feast began with a parade of allegoric chariots celebrationg strength, fame, and love and ended with a "guerra di bellezza". The famous engineer and architect Giulio Parigi created the chariots and organised the decoration of Santa Croce square. Callot, Parigi's pupil, finished the design of the chariots and engraved them in a series that, according to Lieure, is extremely rare. Berlin Kat. 3042; Cicognara 1421. BL 17th-Century Itlian II, p. 813.