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[NAPOLEON I (1769-1821)]. NOLOMEO, Edisto. Il giorno anniversario della nascita di Napoleone Il Grande. Ode. Brescia: Per Nicolò Bettoni, 1808.
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[NAPOLEON I (1769-1821)]. NOLOMEO, Edisto. Il giorno anniversario della nascita di Napoleone Il Grande. Ode. Brescia: Per Nicolò Bettoni, 1808.
4o (303 x 232 mm). PRINTED ON VELLUM. Collation: [14 24 31] (1/1 blank, 1/2r title, 1/2v blank, 1/3r quotation from Cesarotti, 1/3v Dedication to Letizia Bonaparte, 2/1r section title, 2/1v blank, 2/2r text of the Ode, 3/1 blank). 9 leaves, including first and final blanks. (Some light soiling, final text leaf somewhat discolored.) Contemporary red straight-grained morocco gilt, covers with floriate and saw-tooth roll borders, central Napoleonic crest of an eagle surmounted by a crown stamped at center and at angles, smooth spine, board edges and turn-ins gilt with star and leaf tools, green silk linings (some light wear at ends of spine and corners, rear cover lightly scuffed). Provenance: Laetitia Bonaparte (1750-1839, ownership signature in another hand on front pastedown: "Mde Laetitia Bonaparte").
DEDICATION COPY OF A SCARCE NAPOLEONIC BIRTHDAY ODE. The quotation on 1/3r from Cesarotti's Pronea celebrates the "eroica Madre, Diva LETIZIA" of that poem, and serves a fitting epigram for the 3-page Dedication which follows. Napoleon I's mother is hailed for the birth of her son, a moment in which rested the destiny and happiness of the nation. The 27-stanza Ode was delivered by Edisto Nolomeo on 15 August 1808 in Savona. The Ode is a ruminitive celebration of Napoleon on this "immortal day." RARE. No copy of this work appears in American Book Prices Current since at least 1930.
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DEDICATION COPY OF A SCARCE NAPOLEONIC BIRTHDAY ODE. The quotation on 1/3r from Cesarotti's Pronea celebrates the "eroica Madre, Diva LETIZIA" of that poem, and serves a fitting epigram for the 3-page Dedication which follows. Napoleon I's mother is hailed for the birth of her son, a moment in which rested the destiny and happiness of the nation. The 27-stanza Ode was delivered by Edisto Nolomeo on 15 August 1808 in Savona. The Ode is a ruminitive celebration of Napoleon on this "immortal day." RARE. No copy of this work appears in American Book Prices Current since at least 1930.