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Celano, Carlo
News of the beautiful, the ancient and the curious of the city of Naples for foreign gentlemen. Divided into Ten Days. Dedicated to the Holiness of our Lord Pope Innocent XII., 1692
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First Edition. In Naples - Giacomo Raillard's printing house, 1692. Six volumes in 16° (cm. 8.5x15). I: First day, pp. (4), (38), 328 with 1 beautiful allegorical plate, 1 portrait of Celano, the famous plate of the Faithful city of Naples (cm. 32x19), the plate "The Spire of San Gennaro" (cm. 17x19), the plate "Chapel of Card. Filomarino" (cm. 17x23). Contains: Dedicatory To the kind reader Francesco Antonio Sabatino d'Anfora. II: Second day, pp. (4), 252, (2) with 2 folded architectural plates. III: Third day, pp. (4), 391, (2). IV: Fourth and fifth days, pp. (4), 216, (4), 216, (2) with 1 beautiful plate of the "Palazzo Regio" and Frontispiece of the fifth day. V: Sixth and seventh days, pp. (4), 116 with traces of wormhole on the upper internal margin, (4), 178, (2) with 1 plate "Accademia napoletana de li Studi Nuovi", 1 plate "Planimetria dell'Accademia napoletana", 1 plate "Catacombs of Naples" and Frontispiece of the seventh day. VI: Eighth, ninth and tenth days, pp. (4), 69, (2), (4), 96, (4), 111, (2) with 1 plate "Golfo e Castel dell'Ovo" and Frontispieces of the ninth and tenth days. Contains final Appendix. All volumes contain Indexes of the most important things
notables. Full-margin copies with few shadows and dark edges. Beautiful bindings all in contemporary parchment with gold inserts and titles, impressed decoration on the covers. Extremely rare first edition edited by Celano, published a year before his death, which quickly became unobtainable and was followed by other reprints starting in 1724. Celano practiced law until 1647, interrupted following a conviction for having written a text in favor of the Masaniello uprising. After his detention he entered the Congregation of the Apostolic Missions of Naples and in 1664 he was appointed canon of the Cathedral. His vast knowledge of the history of Naples, his activity as an archaeologist and art historian and the long years spent in Neapolitan libraries and archives led him to the drafting of this main work. His famous Guide, printed in 1692, was dedicated to Pope Innocent XII of the Pignatelli family of Naples. It was based on a large number of sources and accompanied by precious and detailed engravings. The Guide leads the reader-visitor through the streets of Naples along an itinerary that starts from the Cathedral of Naples, after numerous stops distributed over ten Days, reaches first the village of Santa Maria di Loreto and then, touching the hamlets near the city of Naples, ends on the top of Mount Somma and Vesuvius.
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