Del Regno d'Italia sotto i Barbari
By Tesauro, Emanuele. Piemontese high baroque portrait interpretations of Germanic kings of Italy designed by Charles Dauphin
3 parts in 1 volume, folio. [4]f including half-title, engraved title, allegorical frontispiece & dedication leaf + 12 p + pp15 120; pp123 225 + [1] + 138 p with notes by Abbate Valeriano Castiglione + [2]p index of Germanic kings of Italy + [26]p general index + [2]p with colophon and list of engraved illustrations; an engraved title and an allegorical frontispiece preceding parts 2 & 3. With engraved portrait of the author in his 73rd year, 58 engraved portraits of Germanic kings of Italy within elaborate baroque ornamental borders, and 3 double-page engraved maps of Sweden, Lombardy, and Piedmont. Large ornamental initials; flamboyant amorial initials initials serving as tail pieces. 19th century mottled sheep; gilt. First edition of the most ambitious baroque historical interpretation of the early barbarian kingdoms of Italy spanning from the 5th century Visigothic invasion under Alaric to the 11th century. The work is divided into 3 sections: the post-Roman interim period of Germanic caretaker kings and their Gothic successors, the Lombard kings, and the Frankish rulers followed by kings of Lombard descent. This book was the principal source for Alessandro Manzoni s tragedy Adelchi (1822), about the son of the last Lombard king Desiderius, the action taking place in 774 with the protagonist Charlemagne taking over the Lombard kingdom. The author, Emanuele Tesauro (1592-1675), dramatist and rhetorician, chiefly celebrated as a Marinist poet, served as court historian to the dedicatee, Charles Emanuel II Duke of Savoy (1634-75), who sponsored some of the finest architecture in Turin and savagely suppressed the Waldenses. Additional notes printed in double columns are provided by Abbate Valeriano Castiglione on pp45-48, 111-120, 123-225. The privilege on verso of the half-title bears the names of Father Thomas Inquisitor in Turin and Buschettus. This remarkable Piemontese illustrated baroque book was engraved by the Lyonese artist J.J.Thourneysen after designs of Charles Claude Dauphin (Carolus Delphinus 1620-77), French historical painter from Nancy who came to work in Turin in 1652. Well preserved; edges of tailend margins of preliminary leaves with traces of waterstaining. Brunet V, 780; Della Chiesa, Catalogo di tutti li scrittori piemontesi, Carmagnola, 1660, pp62-63.
Published by: Turin, Bartolommeo Zavatta, 1664 (at end: 1663)., 1664
Vendor: Hünersdorff Rare Books ABA ILAB
By Tesauro, Emanuele. Piemontese high baroque portrait interpretations of Germanic kings of Italy designed by Charles Dauphin
3 parts in 1 volume, folio. [4]f including half-title, engraved title, allegorical frontispiece & dedication leaf + 12 p + pp15 120; pp123 225 + [1] + 138 p with notes by Abbate Valeriano Castiglione + [2]p index of Germanic kings of Italy + [26]p general index + [2]p with colophon and list of engraved illustrations; an engraved title and an allegorical frontispiece preceding parts 2 & 3. With engraved portrait of the author in his 73rd year, 58 engraved portraits of Germanic kings of Italy within elaborate baroque ornamental borders, and 3 double-page engraved maps of Sweden, Lombardy, and Piedmont. Large ornamental initials; flamboyant amorial initials initials serving as tail pieces. 19th century mottled sheep; gilt. First edition of the most ambitious baroque historical interpretation of the early barbarian kingdoms of Italy spanning from the 5th century Visigothic invasion under Alaric to the 11th century. The work is divided into 3 sections: the post-Roman interim period of Germanic caretaker kings and their Gothic successors, the Lombard kings, and the Frankish rulers followed by kings of Lombard descent. This book was the principal source for Alessandro Manzoni s tragedy Adelchi (1822), about the son of the last Lombard king Desiderius, the action taking place in 774 with the protagonist Charlemagne taking over the Lombard kingdom. The author, Emanuele Tesauro (1592-1675), dramatist and rhetorician, chiefly celebrated as a Marinist poet, served as court historian to the dedicatee, Charles Emanuel II Duke of Savoy (1634-75), who sponsored some of the finest architecture in Turin and savagely suppressed the Waldenses. Additional notes printed in double columns are provided by Abbate Valeriano Castiglione on pp45-48, 111-120, 123-225. The privilege on verso of the half-title bears the names of Father Thomas Inquisitor in Turin and Buschettus. This remarkable Piemontese illustrated baroque book was engraved by the Lyonese artist J.J.Thourneysen after designs of Charles Claude Dauphin (Carolus Delphinus 1620-77), French historical painter from Nancy who came to work in Turin in 1652. Well preserved; edges of tailend margins of preliminary leaves with traces of waterstaining. Brunet V, 780; Della Chiesa, Catalogo di tutti li scrittori piemontesi, Carmagnola, 1660, pp62-63.
Published by: Turin, Bartolommeo Zavatta, 1664 (at end: 1663)., 1664
Vendor: Hünersdorff Rare Books ABA ILAB
