Don Pirlone a Roma. Memorie di un italiano dal 1° settembre 1848 al 31 dicembre 1850 per Michelangelo Pinto
Features
Author: Michelangelo Pinto
Publisher: Stabilim. Tip. di Alessandro Fontana
Place of printing: Turin
Year of publication: 1851-1852
Product Condition:
A work in three volumes. These copies are in fair condition. Half-leather bindings with linen covers, gilded titles and decorations on the spines. The bindings are in poor condition with widespread abrasions to the covers, edges, and curved corners; peeling on the spines and hinges; brown stains on the covers, particularly the back cover of the third volume, which also affects the lower portion of the spine. The binding of the third volume is loose. Edges are stained with dust spots. The leaves are lightly browned with scattered foxing, particularly along the edges; slightly more pronounced in the third volume. There is damp staining on the upper edges of the leaves of the third volume. All three volumes have a double title page, the first of each volume decorated with an allegorical motif frame; the number is noted in pencil on the second title page. Text in Italian.
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Pages: XIII,204;(4),204;(6),216
Format: In eighth
Dimensions (cm):
Height: 26
Width: 18
Description
First paperback edition of this three-volume work by Michelangelo Pinto, lavishly illustrated with 306 full-page engravings, chapter headings, and ornate initials. Pinto was the Italian consul, a professor of Italian literature in St. Petersburg, and the owner of the Roman newspaper "Don Pirlone." After the fall of the Roman Republic, Pinto fled to Turin, where he published this work, maintaining the satirical style that had made the Roman newspaper so successful. "Don Pirlone" was a daily newspaper published in 1848 and 1849 following the 1848 uprisings. It immediately achieved enormous success due to its direct language, use of political satire (primarily against the Papacy, France, and Austria), and caricature in its cartoons. It is recognized as one of the most important illustrated satirical newspapers of the Italian Risorgimento.
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