Direzione per visitar bene il Santuario di Varallo e contemplare i Misteri della Redenzione : corredata da una dissertazione storica, e cronologica intorno l'origine, ed i progressi del medesimo : opera affatto nuova fornita d'immagini, e del disegno della facciata da erigersi avanti il tempio magg. di nuovo incise a spese del tipografo Francesco Caligaris. ...

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sorini, Giovanni Antonio Chiara.

Adam H. Fetterolf Fund.

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Sacro Monte di Varallo (Sanctuary).

Sculpture, Italian.

Mural painting and decoration, Italian.

Church decoration and ornament.

Varallo (Italy)--Sacro Monte--Description and travel--19th century.

Varallo (Italy).

Church decoration and ornament--Italy--Varallo.

Devotional literature, Italian.

Mural painting and decoration, Italian--Italy--Varallo.

Sculpture, Italian--Italy--Varallo.

Italy--Varallo.

Genre:

Woodcuts (prints) -- Italy -- Nineteenth century (dates CE).

Penn Provenance:

Priesterseminar St. Luzi (stamp) (RBC copy)

Physical Description:

vii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 128 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates (some folded) : illustrations ; 19 cm (8vo)

Fingerprint:

o,za oain s.vo dedi (7) 1829 (A)

Place of Publication:

Varallo : [Francesco Caligaris], 1829.

Contents:

Parte I. Dell' Origine, e de' Progressi del Santuario di Varallo : dissertazione storica, e cronologica

Parte II. Direzione per visitar bene e con profitto le Cappelle del Santuario

Indice delle Cappelle ...

Indice degli artisti cioè architetti, pittori, e statuarj valsesiani

Indice dei benefattori.

Notes:

Published anonymously. Sometimes attributed to Giovanni Antonio Chiara Sorini. Cf. Durio, A. Bib. del S. Monte di Varallo.

Dedicated to Cardinal Teresio Maria Carlo Vittorio Ferrero della Marmora, with his woodcut coat of arms on title page.

Illustrations are woodcuts, including frontispiece leaf of plates, 3 folded leaves of plates, and 6 full page illustrations.

Woodcut ornamental tailpieces.

Signatures: pi⁴ *⁸ 2-8⁸.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Adam H. Fetterolf Fund.

Penn Libraries copy bound in contemporary decorated boards.

Penn Libraries copy has a ms. shelf-mark, in ink, on the verso of the front board.

Penn Libraries copy has a stamp (obscured by a wax seal), which reads, in part, "St. Luzi - Chur".

Penn Libraries copy has bookseller's description laid in.

OCLC:

614863420