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La rivoluzione in Francia ed in Italia / raccolta di Fco. Font.

Author/Creator:
Font. , Francesco.
Publication:
[Lombardy], [1797-1798]
Format/Description:
Manuscript
379 leaves : paper ; 267 x 190 mm bound to 274 x 197 mm
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Subjects:
Satire.
Italian poetry -- 18th century.
Italian poetry.
Lombardy -- History -- 18th century.
France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799.
France.
History.
Form/Genre:
Satire.
Codices.
Decrees.
Letters.
Poems.
Satires (literary works)
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, European.
Language:
Italian.
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, AssembleĢe 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]
Notes:
Ms. codex.
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.
Penn Provenance:
Purchased, 1969.
Cited in:
Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800. Supplement A (2), The Library Chronicle 36, no. 1 (1970), p. 13 (Ms. Italian 249).
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Codex 472
OCLC:
155964799