W n-4° obl. with numerous color illustrations by various artists (Balla, Rizzi, Innocenti, Castellucci decorations and caricatures). Hardback edit. on cloth, amateur dust jacket in raw canvas.

The annual register of "Novissima" 1908 was transformed by its then owner - Rodolfo Morandi, a well-known violinist, traveler and bon vivant - into a splendid " album amicorum " from the Belle Époque containing almost a hundred autographs of illustrious figures from music, theatre, the arts, politics, etc. who, in addition to their signatures, also added various dedications, thoughts, literary excerpts and musical lines, etc.

Among the autographed writings, collected around the world especially in the years 1911-1913, stand out those of: Roberto Bracco, Leopoldo Mugnone, Giovanni Sgambati, Tullio Serafin, Ermete Novelli, Arthur Rubinstein, Ferdinando Martini, Felix Weingartner, Luigi Mancinelli, Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Ferdinando Russo, Eugène Ysaye, Lorenzo Perosi, Josef Kaschmann, Francesco Paolo Tosti, Mattia Battistini, Jan Kubelik, Irma and Emma Gramatica, Titta Ruffo, Trilussa, Filippo Turati, Bruno Walter, Gemma Bellincioni, Arturo Toscanini, Alberto Franchetti, Pietro Mascagni, Lydia Borelli, Matilde Serao, Grazia Deledda, Enrico Ferri, Giulio Orsini, Guglielmo Marconi, Antonio Pacinotti, Giacomo Puccini, Ruggero Leoncavallo, Ruggero Ruggeri, Sem Benelli, Salvatore Di Giacomo etc. The album also includes a beautiful original pencil drawing by Arturo Dazzi , depicting a woman with a greyhound.
The interesting note is that the album was already known in the 1930s and was even described in an article that appeared in a well-known illustration and social magazine of the time.

DETAILED LIST

1) Roberto Bracco 2) Ezio Castellucci 3) Dimitri Achscharumoff, 4) Edoardo Gelli 5) Arnoldo Giboni 6) Guerriero Fabbri 7) Leopoldo Mugnone 8) Giovanni Sgambati 9) Tuilio Serafin 10) Mansueto Samdy 11) Ermete Novelli 12) Finzi Magrini 13) Zadonsky 14) Adriano Ariani 15) Arturo Rubinstein 15) Ferdinando Martini 17) Felice von Weingartner 18) Salvatore Barzilai 19) Luigi Mancinelli 20) N. Balling 21) L. Rinokopf 22) Wolf-Ferrari 23) Giuseppe De Luca 24) Ferdinando Russo 25) Isaye 26) Franca Florio 27) Anita Rio 28) Princess Lasareno 29) Lorenzo Perosi 30) Adolfo Owap 31) Fernando Carpi 32) Kaschmann 33) Raul Pugno 34) Viglione Borghese 35) Rita Sacchetti 36) Baroness Hlitzina 37) Paolo Tosti 38) Mattia Battistini 39) Emilio Gallori 40) Rosina Storchio 41) Jan Kubelik 42) Irma Grammatica 43) Titta Ruffo 44) Emma Grammatica 45) Giannina Russo 46) Bruno Walter 47) Orazio Raimondo 48) Trilussa (CA Salustri) 49) Filippo Berenini 50) Filippo Turati 51) Amedeo Chiantoni 52) Gemma Bellincioni 53) Giorgina Caprile 54) Arturo Toscanini 55) Alberto Franchetti 56) Farulli 57) Pletro Mascagni 58) Arturo Dazzi 59) Cecilia Gagliardi 60) Lidya Borelli 61) Agesilao Greco 62) Giuseppe Mengelberg 63) Grazia Deledda 64) Matilde Serao 65) Armando Falconi 66) Tina di Lorenzo 67) Salomea Kruceniski 68) Enrico Ferri 69) Giulio Orsini (Domenico Gnoli) 70) Franceseo De Pinedo 71) Guglielmo Marconi 72) Guglieimo Romiti 73) Antonio Pacinotti 74) Manfredi 75) Francesco Marconi 76) Alessandro Bonci 77) Albani 78) G. Puccini 79) Sichel 80) Anselmi 81) Arturo Falconi 82) Eugenia Burzio 83) Ruggero Leoncavallo 84) Ruggero Ruggeri 85) Sem Benelli 86) Salvatore di Giacomo 87) Giovan Battista Queirolo 88) Gervasio 89) P.Cimini 90) Giovanni Rosadi