Poesie per le gloriose nozze dell'eccellenze loro il nobil uomo Co[nte] Giovanni Manin e la nobil donna Catarina Pesaro.
Contributors: Zatta, Antonio, fl. 1757-1797, printer.
Publisher: Dalle stampe di Antonio Zatta
Published: 1769
Place of publication: In Venezia
Language: ita
Subjects: Manin, Giovanni -- Marriage -- Early works to 1800; Pesaro, Catarina -- Marriage -- Early works to 1800; Manin family -- Early works to 1800; Pesaro family -- Early works to 1800; Epithalamia -- Italy -- Venice -- Early works to 1800; Italian poetry -- 18th century; Wedding books -- Italy -- Venice -- Early works to 1800; Wood-engraving, Italian -- Early works to 1800; Wood-engraving -- 18th century
Genres: Early works to 1800
Other titles: Poesie per le gloriose nozze dell'eccellenze loro il nobil uomo Co. Giovanni Manin e la nobil donna Catarina Pesaro
Notes: Wedding or presentation book in the 18th-century Venetian tradition. Cf. A. Robison. "Componimenti poetici per l'ingresso solenne alla dignità di proccuratore di S. Marco ... Lodovico Manin (Venice, Albrizzi, 1764), Rosenwald Collection 1576." In, Vision of a collector : the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the Library of Congress. Washington, D.C., 1991, p. 352-357.

Poems, including many sonnets, a few songs and an octavo, are dedicated to members of the Manin and Pesaro families by various authors. Dedication to the mothers of the bride and groom signed: Gio. Maria Turretta. Poems are signed: Sig. N.N., Carlo Baruffaldi, Giuseppe Tacconis, Giovanni Trieste, Francesco Marescalchi, Aurelio Dadini, Daniele Florio, Francesco Giordani, Angelica Janisi [et al.].

All engravings are signed by Antonio Zatta. Engraved title has a figurative, rococo frame inside a narrow decorative border. A full-page engraved frontispiece, including a number of full-figure portraits and a shield combining the coats of arms of the two families, faces the title. At the head of the dedication is an elaborate engraved coat of arms, again combining the arms of the Manin and Pesaro families; the first verse of the dedication has an engraved historiated initial. Sixteen additional engraved illustrations or vignettes appear in the text beginning on p. [xxix]. Woodcut head-pieces, devices and initials throughout.

Waxy brown paper binding has coats of arms inside rococo frames and borders printed from woodblocks in white ink: the Manin arms are on the front and the Pesaro arms on the back cover. Front cover decoration signed: Zatta.

Signatures: [pi]² B-F⁸ G⁴.