La rivoluzione in Francia ed in Italia / raccolta di Fco. Font.

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Font. , Francesco.

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Satire.

Italian poetry--18th century.

Italian poetry.

Lombardy--History--18th century.

Lombardy.

France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799.

France.

History.

Genre:

Satire.

codices (bound manuscripts)

decrees

letters (correspondence)

poems

satires (literary genre)

Manuscripts, Italian.

Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

Purchased, 1969.

Physical Description:

379 leaves : paper ; 267 x 190 mm bound to 274 x 197 mm

Place of Publication:

[Lombardy], [1797-1798]

Language Note:

Italian.

Contents:

1. p.1-7: Passio domini nostri Ludovici XVI (1792).

2. p. 8-p.iii: Section containing odes and sonnets on political events (on Louis XVI, Pope Pius VI, Napoleon Bonaparte, Assemblée nationale, the French army and navy in Italy and elsewhere, Venice, etc., including a satirical poem Ribellione degl'animali contro gli uomini.

3. p.167-855: [Copies of decrees, proclamations, discourses, manifestos, letters, and other documents relating to the occupation of Lombardy by the French, dated 1797, with poetry interspersed]

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from spine.

Pagination: Paper, i + 379 + i; 1-166, [iv], 167-375, 377-457, 558-855; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners; 2 preliminary leaves cut out, one of these presumably was a title.

Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand, with two unnumbered leaves between p. 166-167 in a different hand.

Binding: Contemporary half calf, with title on spine and legend "Tom. I. MSS."

Origin: Written in Lombardy, 1797-1798.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800. Supplement A (2), The Library Chronicle 36, no. 1 (1970), p. 13 (Ms. Italian 249).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 472

OCLC:

155964799