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Tuesday 11 November 2025 e Wednesday 12 November 2025, 03:00 PM • Rome

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Tosi, Clemente

The three flights of the Holy House of Loreto in Piceno., 1655

Estimate

€ 200 - 300

Sold

€ 258

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Information

200x150 mm
Rome, In the Printing House of Iacomo Dragondelli, 1655. In-4°, modern binding in half parchment, with marbled paper on the boards and white paper endpapers; title page in black characters, with engraved floral vignette, beautiful initial at the beginning of the text, finely engraved header and endpaper; Presence of light foxing on the leaves, slight traces of damp at the upper outer corner of the leaves, not affecting the text; work in almost excellent general condition. § By the same author La custodia angelica. [...] Performed in Rome in the Church dedicated to the Holy Guardian Angel on October 12, 1664, and brought to light by one of the Brothers of the Archiconfraternity , Angelo Bernabò, Rome, 1665. In-4°, modern binding in half parchment, with marbled paper on the boards and white paper endpapers; frontispiece in black type, with engraved floral vignette, beautiful initials at the beginning of the dedication and the text, finely engraved header and end of the text.

Specialist Notes

First edition ; a very rare and interesting work for the local history of Loreto and the cult of the Madonna of Loreto. § Very rare first edition of this panegyric in praise of the guardian angel. Panegyrics were originally speeches given at festive gatherings of the people and had the characteristic of encomiastic exaltation; subsequently, retaining this nature, they were better identified as orations written to magnify, to flatter, to please, to showcase the art of speaking; they are very similar to encomiums, epitaphs, and eulogies.

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