[SICILY - ENLIGHTENMENT]. A group of two scarceSicilian edit...

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[SICILY - ENLIGHTENMENT]. A group of two scarceSicilian editions devoted to the culture and thought of the Enlightenment on the island. Catania and Palermo, 1794.
Interesting group comprising two works emblematic of late eighteenth-century Sicilian culture. The first is the scarcesecond edition (only two copies recorded in OPAC) of Giuseppe Logoteta's moral poem, in which the celebrated Catanese jurist and poet addresses, from an Enlightenment perspective, the themes of ethics, virtue and the duties of man. The second is the first edition of Francesco Carelli's eulogy of Gabriele Lancillotto Castello, Prince of Torremuzza, one of the foremost scholars, antiquarians and numismatists of his time, and a key figure in the rediscovery of Sicilian antiquities and the development of historical studies on the island.

LOGOTETA, Giuseppe (1748-1809). Versi sciolti sopra i doveri dell'uomo coll'aggiunta d'un opuscolo Sulla vera credenza dedicati al signore D. Alessandro Emmanuele Mallia marchese di Torreforte... Seconda edizione. Catania: Francesco Pastore, 1794. 8vo (186 × 120 mm). Contemporary boards. [WITH:] CARELLI, Francesco. Elogio di Gabriello Lancellotto Castello principe di Torremuzza recitato nell'Accademia del Buon Gusto. Palermo: Reale Stamperia, 1794. Folio (288 × 220 mm). Engraved vignette on title-page, engraved head- and tailpieces. Contemporary boards. (2)