Quindici tragedie di Vittorio Alfieri da Asti in tre volumi - Dedicate all'autore medesimo; ed aggiuntevi alle sue memorie letterarie, con La Merope di Maffei, e L'Aristodemo di Monti, dall'editore il Dott. Antonio Montucci
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Dedicate all'autore medesimo; ed aggiuntevi alle sue memorie letterarie, con La Merope di Maffei, e L'Aristodemo di Monti, dall'editore il Dott. Antonio Montucci
Author: Vittorio Alfieri
Publisher: Stamperia Ballantyne
Place of printing: Edinburgh
Year of publication: 1805-1806
Product Condition:
Work in three volumes in good condition. Full leather bindings with gilt titles and embossed friezes and fillets on the spine; plates framed by golden friezes with dry decorations in the centre: color fading and peeling on the plates; brown spots and peeling on the backs; peeling at the corners and edges. Cuts with dust spots; marbled side and bottom cuts. Ex-libris paper inserts applied to the front pasteboards. Well preserved papers. Volume one: scattered flourishes in the text, with particular concentration on the introductory papers; minimal pencil annotation in O.8. Volume two: pencil annotations in D.3 and D.4; minimal flourishes to the text, slightly more marked in the quinterns P and U. Volume three: flourishes slightly more widespread in the quinterns A, G, O, P and R. Text in Italian. Introduction in English to the first volume.
Pages: (2),LI,(1),272,(2);(4),323,(3);(4),342
Format: In the sixteenth
Dimensions (cm):
Height: 16
Width: 10
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This English edition of Alfieri's tragedies gives an account of the European success of the work of the poet from Asti, who had only been dead for two years at the time of the publication of the three volumes. The editor is the professor of languages and belles lettres Antonio Morucci, who publishes as an introduction to the texts two articles in English published in April and July 1805 in the Monthly Magazine "to give the reader genuine information respecting the moral and literary character of Count Alfieri, and the present state of Tuscan literature in Italy". Maffei's Merope and Monti's Aristodemo are added to Alfieri's 15 tragedies. The binding and typographical appearance of the three volumes are very elegant.
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