Del funerale celebrato nel duomo di Torino all'altezza reale di Carlo Emanuele II. duca di Sauoia, principe de Piemonte, rè di Cipri, &c
By: Da madama reale Maria Giovanna Battista di Savoia Madre, e Tutrice dell'altezza reale di Vittorio Amedeo II. e reggente dè suoi stati, racconto del P. Giulio Vasco della Compagnia di Giesu
Contributors: Zavatta, Bartolomeo, active 1651-1690, publisher; Tasnière, Giorgio, -1704, engraver; Recchi, Giovanni Antonio, active 1600-1675, artist; Cortella, Carlo Giuseppe, active 1675-1699, artist
Publisher: Per Bartolomeo Zappata.
Published: 1675
Place of publication: In Torino
Language: ita
Number of pages: 112
Subjects: Death and burial; Funeral rites and ceremonies; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Fvnerale celebrato nel duomo di Torino all'altezza reale di Carlo Emanuele II. duca di Sauoia, principe de Piemonte, rè di Cipri, &c
Notes: Funeral book recounting and depicting the state funeral of Carlo Emanuele II, Duke of Savoy, in 1675.

Illustrated with an engraved allegorical frontispiece, an allegorical portrait of the Duke confronting Death and 5 large double-folding engraved plates by Georges Tasnière after Giovanni Antonio Recchi and Carlo Giuseppe Cortella. The folding plates detail the elaborate structures and decorations created for the event: the catafalque with the body; a grand view of the funeral procession winding through the Piazza Castello (showing the old facade of Palazzo Madama); a view of the black-draped cathedral entrance (with a specially constructed temporary façade adorned with mourning and allegorical figures); and two interior views of the cathedral, showing its gloomy transformation (with the ceiling draped in black cloth covered with thousands of silver tears, and enormous skeletal figures lining the nave).

Signatures: pi² A-O⁴.

Includes various elegies on Carlo Emanuele.

Text ornamented with woodcut initials and head- and tail-pieces.