Articoli tratti dal Caffè

Features

Author:  AA.VV.

Publisher:  Nicolò Bettoni

Place of printing:  Milan

Year of publication:  1829

Product Condition:
Four volumes in two volumes. Example in good condition. Leather bindings with gilt corners, titles and friezes on the spines; marbled plates with traces of dust and abrasions; peeling on edges, corners and spines; woodworm hole in the hinge of the second volume. Cuts with dust spots. Well-preserved papers, with rare foxing especially on the first volume. Missing corner in 8.5 of the first volume without compromising text; missing corner in 2 of the second volume with compromised text. Text in Italian language.

Pages:  156,(4)168;178,183(1)

Format:  In the twenty-fourth

Dimensions (cm):
Height:  13
Width:  8

Description

Selection promoted by the publisher Bettoni in 1829 of articles taken from the historic magazine Il Caffé, published in Milan from June 1764 to May 1766 on the initiative of the Verri brothers, with the collaboration of Cesare Beccaria and the group of intellectuals who gravitated around the Accademia dei Fists. In the preface, the publisher explains his intent: to give voice to the hopes of a new beginning that resounded in the writings of those wise champions of the Enlightenment of philosophy. In the first selected article, the program of the magazine: “What is this Caffé? It is a press release that will be published every ten days. What will this press sheet contain? Various things, very disparate things, unpublished things, things made by different authors, all things aimed at the public utility"

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