Discorso fatto per suo passatempo dalla M. di F. il G. R. di P.
Contributors: Algarotti, Francesco, conte, 1712-1764
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1760
Place of publication: Fantasianopoli [i.e. Venice?]
Language: ita
Number of pages: 26
Subjects: French Satire; Early works to 1800
Notes: A literary game of Francesco Algarotti, in which he translates from French into Italian a work by Frederick the Great, a funeral elegy on the death of Jakob Reinart, master shoemaker, pronounced by Peter Mortier, deacon of the Cathedral of the City of Imagination.

M. di F. il G. R. di P.= Maestá di Federico il Grande Ré di Prussia. Translated frm the French by F. Algarotti. Cf. Melzi.

"All'opera il traduttore," p. [3]-4, signed: D. R.

Fictitious imprint.

The Venice edition listed in Parenti is an 8vo, and has an eagle as a title vignette. Melzi lists (in error?) an octavo ed. issued in 1761.

Signatures: A-C⁴ D².

Title vignette: a shield surrounded by flags, drum and bugle, and military weapons.

Cf. Parenti, M.  Diz. dei luoghi di stampa falsi, inventat o supposti, p. 82.

Cf. Melzi, G. Anonime e pseudonime, I, p. 310.

Errata: p. [1] at end.