BETTINELLI (Saverio)

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BETTINELLI (Saverio)
Il Parnaso veneziano Poemetto. Venice, Carlo Palese, 1796. In-4, 4 ff.n.ch. and 87 pp.: cardboard of printed pink paper, floral frame, coat of arms in the center, different on each plate (Venetian binding of the time). First separate edition. Finely engraved allegorical frontispiece in intaglio, unsigned, and vignette with the coat of arms of Knight Cappello, to whom this edition is dedicated. To the Venetian parnassus. Saverio Bettinelli (1718-1808), a playwright born in Mantua and member of the Society of Jesus, sings the literary glory of Venice and its authors: Apostolo Zeno, Doge Marco Foscarini, Cardinal Querini, Bembo, the writers Gaspara Stampa, Olimpia Malipiera and Lucrezia Marinella, etc. In this poem of 440 verses, divided into 55 stanzas. The poem is followed by notes by the author and a scholarly essay by Jacopo Morelli on Venetian poetry, entitled Della cultura della poesia presso li veneziani (Della cultured poetry in Venice) (pp. 36-87). Charming cardboard box of pink paper with stencil decoration. The coat of arms in the centre of the first plate is that of the knight Antonio Cappello, appointed procurator of St. Mark in 1796. From the G. P. Costantini Library, with its ex-libris label and wet seal on the title. Two halos of wetness on the plates, one of which caused a lack of paper on the back (repaired). (Cicogna, Saggio di bibliografia veneziana, no. 2532).
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