La rivoluzione in Francia ed in Italia

Name:

Font. , Francesco

Timespan:

18th century; Revolution, 1789-1799

Date:

1797/1798

Language:

Italian

Provenance:

Purchased, 1969.

Subject:

Satire; Italian poetry -- 18th century; Italian poetry; History

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Satire; Codices; Decrees; Letters; Poems; Satires (literary works); Manuscripts, Italian; Manuscripts, European; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

379 leaves : paper; 267 x 190 mm bound to 274 x 197 mm

Geographic Subject:

Lombardy -- History -- 18th century; France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799; France

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Table of contents: 1. p.1-7: Passio domini nostri Ludovici XVI (1792). -- 2. p. 8-p.iii: Section containing odes and sonnets on political events (on Louis XVI, Pope Pius VI, Napoleon Bonaparte, Assemblée nationale, the French army and navy in Italy and elsewhere, Venice, etc., including a satirical poem Ribellione degl'animali contro gli uomini. -- 3. p.167-855: [Copies of decrees, proclamations, discourses, manifestos, letters, and other documents relating to the occupation of Lombardy by the French, dated 1797, with poetry interspersed]; Title from spine.; Pagination: Paper, i + 379 + i; 1-166, [iv], 167-375, 377-457, 558-855; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners; 2 preliminary leaves cut out, one of these presumably was a title.; Script: Written in a cursive script by a single hand, with two unnumbered leaves between p. 166-167 in a different hand.; Binding: Contemporary half calf, with title on spine and legend "Tom. I. MSS."; Origin: Written in Lombardy, 1797-1798.; Italian.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize Ms. Codex 472