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Wednesday 18 October 2023, 10:30 AM • Rome

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Repetti, Emanuele

Historical physical gazetteer of Tuscany containing the description of all the places of the Grand Duchy, Duchy of Lucca, Garfagnana and Lunigiana, 1833

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Florence, at the Author and Publisher, 1833-'45. In 8th large, 240 x 150 mm. 6 volumes, including the Supplement of 1845. Diagrams, tables and plates in the text, some folded, browning, coeval binding in half leather and light blue marbled cardboard. Ex libris glued to the pastedown with the author's business card § Together in the lot are the 9 volumes of the History of Tuscany by Lorenzo Pignotti, in a beautiful contemporary half leather binding and marbled cardboard, with the owner's monogram on the spine whose stamp appears on the first sheet,L Santacroce.

Specialist Notes

Repetti's Dictionary is considered a source of primary importance for the study of the Tuscan territory: articles are dedicated to all the localities (not only the inhabited centers, but also parishes, aqueducts, rivers, mountains, streets, etc.) specific, arranged alphabetically.
Pignotti was a very versatile Tuscan writer: he composed poems in blank verse of pre-romantic taste (Shakespeare's Tomb of 1779 and The Shadow of Popeof 1781; burlesque poems (La treccia donata of 1808, inspired by Alexander Pope's Ricciolo abducted); a History of Tuscany in nine volumes, published posthumously in the two-year period 1813-1814; eulogy poems; a popular essay on a medical topic (Medical instructions for the country people. He was also the author of fables, some original, others taken from the heritage of classic fables, especially from Aesop.