Novelle amene / del cittadino Casti ; tomo I[-IV].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Casti, Giovanni Battista, 1724-1803, author, attributed name.

Contributor:

Julia B. Leisenring Book Fund.

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Novelle--18th century--Early works to 1800.

Novelle.

Erotic poetry, Italian--Early works to 1800.

Erotic poetry, Italian.

Physical Description:

4 volumes ; 18 cm (8vo)

Place of Publication:

[Milan?] : [publisher not identified], Anno MDCCXCVIII [1798]

Contents:

Tomo 1. D. Diego ; La bolla di Alessandro VI ; La figlia senza giudizio ; La fata urgella ; L'aurora ; L'arcangelo Gabriello; Il maggio

tomo 2. L'arcivescovo di Praga ; L'anticristo ; Le brache di S. Griffone ; La comunanza ; Diana ed Endimione ; Il diavolo nell' inferno ; Geltrude ed Isabella ; L'incantesimo

tomo 3. Monsignor Fabrizio ; Prometeo, e Pandora ; Il quinto evangelista ; Il matrimonio d'un vecchio ; Il rosignuolo ; L'amore, e il dispetto

tomo 4. La bella circassa ; La mandragora ; L'usura coronata ; La lampana di Sant' Antonio ; L'ortolano delle monache ; I matrimoni per equivoco ; La Cleopatra in braccio a Marco Antonio ; Memoriale dato per Celia da N*** in occasione della vacanza del Vescovo di V***.

Notes:

Twenty-nine novelle by or attributed to Giovanni Battista Casti.

Signatures: tomo 1: A-2A⁴ 2B² (leaves E1, L1 and Y1 unsigned) ; tomo 2: [A]⁴ B-2C⁴ ; tomo 3: [A]⁴ B-Z⁴ 2A² ; tomo 4: [A]⁴ B-2B⁴ 2C² (leaf 2C2 blank).

Without pagination.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center copy disbound from the original volumes and "[r]ebound into twenty-eight fascicles with each poem placed in its own contemporary purple and black domino wrappers (II:5-6 bound together). IN the center, each front cover has a contemporary oval red-painted paper label with a decorative gilt frame, gilt-lettered short title of the individual novella and the volume and part number."--Bookseller's description. All volumes housed together in slip case.

Kislak Center copy: tomo 1.3, 3.4, 3.6, and 4.1-7 each has early manuscript note in Italian on verso of half-title leaf.

Kislak Center copy acquired for the Penn Libraries in 2020 from Bruce McKittrick Rare Books with assistance from the Julia B. Leisenring Book Fund.

Kislak Center copy: tomo 1.5: leaf P1 bound in out of order after leaf P3; tomo 3.3: gathering I bound in out of order after leaf H2.

Kislak Center copy: tomo 1.4 has small hole in leaf O1.

Kislak Center copy: tomo 3.2: leaves F2, F3, G2 and G3 detached; tomo 4.3: leaves L2 and L3 detached.

OCLC:

1405211377

Online:

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