Amori del sig. conte Ludovico Savioli Fontana senator bolognese : con aggiunta di altre sue poesie.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Savioli, Lodovico, 1729-1804.

Contributor:

Dante and Tasso Library Fund.

Standardized Title:

Amori

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Italian poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Rossi, Domenico Vincenzo, -1819 (inscription) (RBC copy)

Physical Description:

139 pages, 5 unnumbered pages ; 14 cm (18mo)

Fingerprint:

;eo- i.no o.to IlLa (3) 1790 (Q)

Place of Publication:

[Italy] : [Publisher not identified], [between 1790 and 1800]

Notes:

This edition of Amori was probably printed in the last decade of the 18th century based on based on the decorative paste-paper binding as identified by bookseller Alastor Rare Books Ltd.

Collection contains 24 poems the first 12 of which were published under title "Rime del signor conte Lodovico Savioli" in Venice : Remondini, 1758. The first full edition of Savioli's "Amori" was printed in 1765 (Lucca : Per Giovanni Riccomini) and continued to be issued in numerous locations throughout Italy from 1789-1800.

Dedication superscribed: il conte Ludovico Savioli Fontana.

Signatures: A-M⁶ (leaves M5-M6 blank)

Includes a reflection on Dante's tomb "Sul sepolcro di Dante Alighieri" on page 114 followed by a mythological glossary from page 115 to end.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Dante and Tasso Library Fund.

RBC copy bound in contemporary pink decorated paste paper over stiff paper boards.

RBC copy inscribed on title page "Ad uso di Domenico Vincenzo Rossi" probably belonging to lawyer and poet Domenico Vincenzo Rossi (d. 1819)

RBC copy with faded ms. title and shelf mark ("686") on spine.

OCLC:

946618334