Title: Veglie di Tasso. Prima edizione Italiane
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"> 12mo. pp. xii, 136.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">First Italian edition, unaccountably rare outside Italy, with four additional ‘veglie’ in addition to the thirty original ‘veglie’ or night thoughts of Torquato Tasso (1544-1595), a dedication by Giuseppe Compagnoni (1754-1833) to ‘Maria Zavaglia nata Calcagnini,’ and with the text of his memoir of Tasso (pp. 115-136), which Compagnoni’s friend Jean François Mimaut (1774-1837) had rendered only in French, given in the original Italian. The ‘veglies’ were forged by Compagnoni, the Milanese political journalist, poet, and editor of ‘Gerusalemme liberata,’ and were first published by Mimaut in a bilingual edition (see Bib# 4658548/Fr# 1439 in this collection).
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